Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Thursday, April 5 at 17:00 UTC (times around the world)
• Audio: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
• Room: ORLY in Mountain View 3rd floor (note this is a room change from earlier meetings)
• Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians
• Meeting notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Grow-meeting-notes-04-05-12

Agenda

• Introductions

Updates

• Thank you for filling out Steward satisfaction survey. Results will be posted soon.

• Contributor Audit (data in review)

Discussions

• Firefox Clinic review, lessons learned and next steps by Madalina and Rosana from SUMO (see the video of the Clinic)

• David Rajchenbach-Teller's notes on working with academic institutions on Mozilla projects -- what works, what doesn't work, what could help

• Bugzilla is now sending an email to people who have their first patch approved -- is this something your project could make use of or are there places in the contribution path for your project where you could help people along?

• Upcoming events (standing item)
  • MozCamp Latin America (April 20-22)
  • Proposed "Mozilla Day" recruitment day in Minneapolis (cf: @glind). Leave-behinds, schwag, other help and ideas welcome.
  • QA Workshop in Turin (Proposed for end of May, 2012)
    • Planning etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QTPoNJMjAF

Other items if there's time

• Dashboards discussion?

• Governance threads?

• Michelle's experience with support inquiries from Get Involved page

• Report back: Creating a contributor strategy for MozSpaces

• Report back: Next steps for video footage from Summit

• Report back: Town halls and giving contributors more of a voice

• Report back: Casey on his experience contributing to webdev

• Question: How do you help people who just want to be assigned a task?

• Question: How can we help events be more effective at bringing in contributors?

• Question: How do you balance doing something yourself vs. helping someone do something?

• Question: How can we get contributors involved in our web projects?

• Question: How do you not lose track of people just starting to get involved?

• Question: How do people deal with negative feedback and stop energy?

• Feel free to add more questions or other agenda items...

Action Items