Mozillians/Phonebook/Services

The phonebook is an excellent resource for Mozilla contributor information. We've had a bevy of requests to make that information more widely available to other mozilla.org properties and campaigns. The "Services" feature in the app will be a step forward to making Mozilla Connect profiles to be the one-stop-shop for contributor personas within the Mozilla Project.

Functional Principles

• Single contributor profile across all of Mozilla.org
• Standardize, Standardize, Standardize
• Simple Use Cases First

Features

Mozillian Passport

• Flow Diagram

Mozillians currently have a difficult time connecting and getting access to Projects and Products in our community. Further, they have to constantly type in the same information they've already added on the Mozillians Phonebook. The Phonebook aims to fix this problem by offering an API that authorize users as Vouched Mozillians (giving them greater access to functionality) as well as easily move their contributor identity across any and all mozilla.org properties.

Targeted Use Cases and Goals

Short-Term/K9O

• Winston Bowden - ExactTarget - Sync up e-mail lists of Vouched Mozillians on Engagement's e-mail messaging tool. He wants to reduce the cost of asking IT to query the Phonebook database and upload those e-mails.
• Pierros Papadeas - Mozilla Reps Portal - Authorize contributors for greater access to features on reps.mozilla.org.
• Air Mozilla - Authorize contributors to view Vouched-Mozillian-only streaming video.

Long-Term

• Gerv/Byron Jones - Bugzilla - Authorize contributors based on groups and status as those with greater privileges on Bugzilla. Also, they would like to auto-populate profile pics and fields of a Bugzilla user.
• Taskboard - Authorize contributors for greater access. Populate profiles with Mozillians data. Write data into Mozillians.org profiles.
• Les Orchard - MDN - Authorize contributors with greater access to wiki-editing. Populate profiles with greater amounts of data.

Profile Sharing

• Flow Diagram

Users can opt-in to allow community sites and Mozilla community members to allow for contributor information to be shown to those who the user has allowed to be seen to. There are two major use cases attached to this approach:

1. When contributors go to a mozilla.org property with a profiling system, they should be offered a way to auto-populate the profiles fields with information already placed onto Mozillians.org. Contributors will need to opt-in to use the service during registration or as a logged-in user.
2. For mozilla.org properties, they should be able to use to grab contributor information on a per user, per group or per location basis.

Mozillian Resume [Later]

Users can opt-in to allow Mozilla Connect to show contributions made across groups attached to the Mozillians' profile as well as allow people to make recommendations for work accomplished in the Mozilla Community.

Non-Goals

• Make Mozillians.org the single sign-on solution for the Mozilla Project.