Contribute/Webdev/Group 05 20 13

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Monday, May 20 at 1:30 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

• Webdev Badges
  • Measuring effectiveness of badges and path analysis of Webdev contributors (Carla and Emily)
  • Adding a Mentor badge to current set of Webdev badges (we'll need to design it and get data out of Bugzilla)
    • Future badge topics
      • Integrating badges into Webdev teams' workflow
      • Building out badges to be issued manually by Webdev team members (badges around mentoring, thanking, etc.)

• Building capacity
  • Question about what Metrics to track
    • Discussion with Annie on Webdev contribution dashboard plans
  • Ben to document capacity building effort to share with other teams
  • Webprod's community building kanban board

• Summit hacking idea
  • Can we have a hacking session at the Summit to onboard new people onto Webdev projects and create a template for future webdev hack days?
  • Possible hacking project: interactive timeline of Mozilla

• Sending swag to contributors
  • Revisiting how recognition with swag fits in with the Webdev conversion points

Placeholder

• 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

• Annie to look into status of the creation of a simple Webdev contribution dashboard

• Annie to let us know when there are more licenses available to share SUMO dashboard around to other community builders as a case study