Project: How can openness better drive Mozilla products and technologies?

[nukeador (Rubén Martín [❌ taking a break from Mozilla])]

@pfinch1

For most people here, #2 in this list is of particular interest. To give a sense of the types of questions we’re digging into: we aim to understand Mozilla’s relationships with existing volunteers and collaborators, who they are, how and where they engage, their motivations, and how they’re connected to one another as well as to other open source and open Web projects. Part of this will involve analysing years of contribution data (in Bugzilla, GitHub and elsewhere) and part will involve surveying and interviews (and reading through existing documentation about this including Discourse!). Very important for this work is to develop a better understanding of the many and varied motivations of contributors to the project. I know that this is not the first time these questions have been studies - but I think it is the first time that we’ve looked at this in the context of the rest of the research.

I’ve just published about this component

Revitalize participation by understanding our communities