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 a high, medium or low measurement of capacity for a team.

Resources

Resource measurements are made by looking at who on a team is actively involved in community building:

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. There will be volunteers willing to 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 type 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 effort 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.