Contribute/Capacity
Capacity is a measure of the community building potential of teams. Knowing the capacity of a team helps us determine where contributors are going to most likely be able to successfully get involved and gives us insight into what areas to focus on to get more people involved with Mozilla.
Measuring Capacity
Capacity is measured by looking at three different factors:
- What are the community building resources on a team?
- What are the contribution paths volunteers can use to get involved?
- What data is available to provide visibility into contributor activity?
Each of these areas can be measured as high, medium or low and the combination of the three measurements provides on overall high, medium or low measurement of capacity for a team.
Resources
Resource measurements are made by looking at the following:
| High | Team has one or more people dedicated to community building (Community Builder) |
| Medium | Team has one or more people spending part of their time on community building (Steward) |
| Low | Team has no one actively spending time on community building |
Paths
Path measurements are made by looking at the documented set of steps new contributors can take to successfully contribute to a project:
| High | Team has a fully documented contribution path |
| Medium | Team has a partially documented contribution path |
| Low | Team has no documented contribution path |
Note: People may still be able to get involved in a project without a documented contribution path. Volunteers will show up and figure out what to contribute to and how to contribute, but as Mozilla grows bigger the ability for someone to do that gets harder and harder.
Data
Data measurements are made by looking at the types of community data available to a team to give them insight into contributor activity.
| High | Team has an automated dashboard |
| Medium | Team has some manually maintained data |
| Low | Team has no community data available |
Improving Capacity
A team can improve it's community building capacity by working on one or more of the areas above (resources, paths, data).
For instance, a team with low capacity for all three areas could move to medium capacity by selecting an existing team member to spend part of their time on community building and starting to document the steps contributors can take to get involved with their projects.
The Grow Mozilla efforts exists to help teams with improving their community building capacity. If you'd like to learn more, please visit a Grow Mozilla discussion or contact the Contributor Engagement team.