Grow/Meeting 10 04 12

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Thursday, October 4 at 10 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC (times around the world)
• Video: David Boswell's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369, conf 9634#
• Room: Get to Da Choppa in Mountain View 3rd floor
• Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Agenda

• Reminder for David to record video :)

• Introductions

• Please feel free to take notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/grow-mozilla-notes-10-04-12

• MozCamp Asia call for participation -- deadline for proposals is Oct. 15

• Community building workshop proposals (David)
  • David Eaves has been interviewing people new to community building to find out what needs they have. He has interview notes and suggested workshop outlines to address those needs.

• Contributor metrics (David)
  • Now that we have more data about community growth and health does that change how we set goals for community building?
  • For example, can we set targets for increasing community building capacity or for increasing the leverage ratio of volunteers on teams?

• Materials to use at events to get people to get involved (Leo/Jan)
  • Follow up on business card idea from last meeting
  • Contribution postcards QA is working on (large pdf file warning)

• What Make Long Term Contributors:Willingness and Opportunity in OSS Community

• Localizing the Get Involved page (David)
  • The ES and PT pages have been soft launched
    • http://www.mozilla.org/b/es-ES/contribute/
    • http://www.mozilla.org/b/pt-BR/contribute/
  • Over 20 other localizations under way -- let me know if you'd like to join this list

• Logistics: Canceling next scheduled meeting on Oct 18 due to a conflict with a work week. We'll meet again on Nov. 1.

Other items if there's time

• Report back: Next steps for video footage from Summit

• Report back: Town halls and giving contributors more of a voice

• Question: How can we help events be more effective at bringing in contributors?

• Question: How do you balance doing something yourself vs. helping someone do something?

• Question: How do people deal with negative feedback and stop energy?

• Feel free to add more questions or other agenda items...

• can I get everyones throughts on bug 791872 about a contributors room on vidyo

• Can we as the grow community keep the following page upto date a lot more https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:Community_portal

Action Items and Notes

• Notes from meeting