Revision as of 19:56, 20 September 2011

The Steward Program is a scalable way to bring in new contributors to all areas of the Mozilla community by having members of different teams be responsible for driving contributor growth for each project area. There are three parts to the program:

• Select someone on your team to be a steward responsible for helping contributors get involved in your activities.

• Add contributor growth and health targets to your quarterly goals.

• Make time for the steward to work with the Contributor Engagement team to improve the process for contributing to your project.

Teams that make this investment in contributor recruiting will become more effective at bringing people into their project and will be able to accomplish more as their team grows.

See the Steward Program slides from the September 2011 All Hands for more details.

Areas

Functional Areas

Geographic Areas

Activities

Each team has unique needs that will require creating specific plans for improvement, but there are some general activities that apply to most project areas, such as:

• Assisting with the Contributor Life Cycle Audit

• Helping get contributors signed up to the phonebook

• Reviewing responses to inquiries from Get Involved page

• Writing up volunteer role descriptions (eg, Newsletter Coordinator)

• Working with Mozilla Representatives to promote your project

Resources

Contributor Channels

There are a number of channels you can use to get information out to existing and potential contributors about how to get involved in your project:

• Get Involved pages: over 300,000 visitors a month

• Want to help? form: over 2,000 inquiries a month

• about:mozilla newsletter: over 3,000 subscribers

• Mozillians YouTube channel: over 20 subscribers (just starting to grow this channel)

If you have any questions about any of these or would you to make use of them, let us know.

Peer Support

One of the best ways to learn more about Mozilla and get help is to talk with other people in the community. There are many ways to do this, but the following options are great forums for discussions about helping people get involved in the project.

• Contribute Group: a group that meets every other Thursday at 10 pacific to discuss issues related to helping people get involved in Mozilla.

• Community events: there are many Mozilla events run by volunteers all around the world and they can be very energizing experiences if you haven't been to one before. For example, read Matthew Zeier's post about an amazing experience he had attending community events in Argentina.

Skill Development

• Documentation

• • Best Practices

• • The Art of Community by Jono Bacon

• Training

• Sessions

Special Interest Groups

(ReMo)

Tools

(phonebook, task board, dashboards, etc.)

Communication

• mozillians or remo channels for now?

To Do

• Add link to phonebook profiles for each Steward when phonebook goes live.