User:Automatedtester/Community Email
Community Email Initiative
Community at Mozilla is one of the pillars of how we get things done. In the latest release of Firefox we saw roughly 1/3 of people supplying patches being a volunteer. See We Everyone Yet for data.
A lot of people come in through initiatives like What Can I do for Mozilla and from Bugsahoy. A lot of people work on their first bug and hopefully the mentor can keep them engaged.
Unfortunately due to projects that paid contributors need to do, especially with in specific timeframes, keeping community members engaged can be difficult.
With this in mind I would like to propose that we try a different tact to keep community members engaged using tried and tested digital marketing methods. By using these techniques we can hopefully gather metrics on how we are doing with community.
Email is a medium that a lot of people