Contribute/toolkit/BestPractices/Ownership

Mozillians are always eager to help but a huge blocker is usually where to start or how to help. This document focuses on identifying steps you can take once given ownership to run/direct

Moderate the discussion

You want to make sure that the conversation sticks to the theme/scope of your group and doesn’t spiral out of topic. I wouldn’t want to join a creative design group and end up discussing code half of the time.

Create a Platform for feedback

It’s important to find a comfortable and straight forward way for people to provide feedback. Depending on the setting, this could be either through etherpads, wiki’s, bug reports, mailing lists etc. Highlight people who you feel might have beneficial feedback but just haven’t found a way into the conversation; you know like ‘what do you think Jeff, should we outsource this work or can you do it locally’. The feedback you collect should also be easy to aggregate and share out eg if feedback needs to be made available to a relatively huge group of people, an ehterpad or wiki would make more sense than using email

Don't spam contributors

Identify what different people/groups of participants are interested in and remove them from conversations that might seem like spam to them.