Contribute/Webdev/Group 02 24 14

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Monday, February 24 at 10:30 AM Pacific
• 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#
• Back channel: #webdev

Agenda

• Action items from last meeting

• Contributor growth goal in 2014

• Helping Webprod design for participation
  • Start with reps.mozilla.org as pilot and roll out to Mozillians, www.mozilla.org, badges.mozilla.org

• Increasing meeting attendance
  • Is current time not ideal? Do we need a focus like launching badges.mozilla.org? Are people too busy?

• Luke's analysis of Webdev Get Involved page traffic
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.webdev/DpnXoM2TFDw
  • Possibility of A/B testing the Webdev Get Involved wiki

• Opportunities to coordinate with Web QA

• Metrics
  • Nigel B interested in monthly new webdev contributors report

Placeholder

• Webdev hackathons
  • Luke to draft template
  • willkg also looking to do a webdev hack session at Summit that could serve as a template
  • Next step will be to try it out and document how it went

• Webdev Badges
  • New badge ideas:
    • Mentor badge
    • Partner badges (ie, someone who has contributing pull requests to both Mozilla and other open source projects, like Code for America, Wikipedia, etc)
  • Other badge topics
    • • Integrating badges into Webdev teams' workflow
      • Building out badges to be issued manually by Webdev team members (badges around mentoring, thanking, etc.)

• Reducing barriers for new contributors
  • Top priorities
    • How to contribute to a Mozilla web site screencast (Sancus)
    • Making contact and bug tracking information easier to find on sites (bug 766906) (Rik)
    • Firebug + Firediff for easy CSS hacking without needing to install site (Sancus)
  • Other ideas (need to prioritize)
    • Linking to the Github page template in footer of pages on Bedrock (Rik)
    • Improving documentation and clarifying how different sites have small but significant differences to be aware of
    • Reaching out to Petri team to see if they could help make it easier for front-end webdev contributors to access to a staging site

• Tulsa Webdev hack day
  • Looking for mentors to prepare contribution opportunities and be available online during event
  • Using this as a template for Reps to run other webdev hack days

• Creating a workflow for how to handle webdev inquiries
  • Documenting current workflow
  • Enhancing current process (follow back up with promising leads 2 weeks after first contact, recognizing volunteers with a public post or swag after finishing first mentored bug)

• Piggybacking on other contributor efforts
  • Coding pathway: How to make use of http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ and collaborate with Coding Stewards
  • Design pathway: Are there relevant CSS and web design contribution information to add to Design wiki page for design contributors?

Action Items

• Ben to talk to his team about contributor growth goal in 2014