QA/Community/Growth

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Goals

General Goals:

• Organize successful community events and projects
• Improve documentation, processes, and tools
• Get more people involved through outreach

Community Action Plans

• Q42007 Community Strategy Doc
• Q12008 Community Strategy Doc

Brainstorming

• How to improve Bug Days
  • Feedback from developers
  • occasional developer attendance corresponding to the topic at hand
  • improve attendance in general - need ~5-10 active people.
    • promotion via irc
    • promotion via wiki
    • promotion via qmo
    • word of mouth
    • promotion via blogs
    • promotion via news sites
  • better bugday documentation for planners and participants: Done here Feel free to make any changes that would make it and the Bug Day page better.
  • careful selection of topics that are interesting, fun, and able to benefit from working as a team.

• How to expand Test Days to other aspects of QA
• "Mozilla QAC" (QA Community) - Create a presence at major social networking sites (MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, etc). Some groups already exist for Firefox, but need to figure out whether to tap into that or start a QA specific group.
• "Mini-Projects" - Small, short-term projects that will either help the QA team get work done or allow the community to try out new things and create through learning.
• Action items page that is closely related to everyday QA tasks for community members to hit anytime

Ideas in Action

• QMO (in progress)
• "Mozilla University" - collection of docs and tutorials on how new people can get involved in Mozilla (based on experience with Seneca and other college outreach)
  • Created Mozilla University page https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/university/
  • Over 500 flyers distributed to Campus Reps around the country linking to Mozilla Unversity
• Develop strong relationship with mozillaZine.org (contacted Alex Bishop at mZ)
  • Find ways to work together on Mozilla Support project
  • Engage the community more in the mZ forums
• Promoting to OS groups and International communities
  • Mac user test group
  • Mozilla Japan localizing QMO and Litmus

Sources we use currently on Testdays

• When we have a Testday we communicate to the following sources currently
  • vistaqa@mozilla.org Vista Community QA Mailinglist
  • communityQA@mozilla.org General Community QA Mailing List
  • mozilla.dev.quality Newsgroup
  • Mozillazine Forum (section Build)
  • www.firefox-browser.de (German Community, see Tomcat to get posts on this forum)
  • QA weblog (weblogs.mozillazine.org\qa)