Community Development task force

This is the community task force page.

See Community Development meetings.

Projects

Here’s what we’re working on.

Doc Sprints

Doc Sprint projects:

• CSS Properties
• Getting Started user experience design and usability study
• Site architecture (i.e. DOM apis)

University outreach

• University-focused Doc Sprints
• Career fairs

Recognition & Rewards

• Badges?
• Points?
• By-lines for initial contributors
• Recognition for major contributors

Contributor surveys and usability studies

See WPD/Community/Survey

Community pages

• This
• Navigation

Doug May’s brain dump

Points raised in this section need to be edited and incorporated into the above heading topics or have headings created for them.

• Communications Plan – Julee to add item (much already listed below falls under this, so the overarching topic has been inserted above)
  • Our immediate opportunity to shape the conversation, and make major progress
  • CSS Properties project
    • Review/confront current status and definition of done
    • Create and communicate a compelling vision of what it will mean to us as an industry and as an entrepreneurial community to have this as a resource
    • Identify what it will take to get from here to promotably complete and usable
      • Magnitude of the task(s) by area
      • Design and roll out formal review and vetting
      • Scale up examples and testing as needed to make it whole
      • Key participants and roles needed to drive quality and social validation
      • Promotional campaign (say it, do it, dance!)
      • Be the game changer we have been nominated as
  • Getting Started user experience design and usability
    • Easy self-identification by skill, focus, stack level
    • Clear instructions to get set up and get started
    • Clear lists to pull from for the well-established roles and tasks
    • Clear and constructive place to go if you’re not clear on what to do
    • Pick short-term (event-centric?) areas of focus to upgrade the overall system
      • hint – CSS properties completion and community review flow
    • Simple metrics, gamification, promotion, results capture
    • Open ears – explicitly operate in learning mode; elicit feedback and overtly use it
  • Survey
    • Single instrument at checkin to orient new users, remove initial roadblocks, guide them in getting started, and collect feedback in the process (how long does wifi plus registration, IRC/dashboard connect, self-identification, and initial task training take?)
    • Open-ended follow-up to gather stats but more importantly to hear what they have to say (what’s in your way of making a bit of a difference on this every week?)
  • Getting to steady state ("completion"}
    • What is our overall definition of done?
    • How much community participation will it take?
    • What infrastructure will be needed to enable that?
    • After ramp-up, what will it take ongoingly to maintain our status as the de-facto standard and go-to reference?
  • Site architecture (especially the DOM apis)
  • Dashboard
    • Start to invest in the perception of continuity and sustainability of both the effort and the results
  • Tech talks?
    • Compete with Html5DevConf training day
    • Snag experts while they’re in town
    • Exploit the fact that we already have great people, a great venue, and great food, and get some great learning done, in addition to some great work (embellish the fundamental service effort with some topnotch education and exchange of ideas – the topics don’t have to be dead center on the project, but bonus points for any who pull that off, too)
    • Special task team end-of-day debriefs and reports (here’s the site design upgrade from this sprint; here’s what we did to flesh out the content review process)
  • Other items?
  • Remote participation (IRC luv)
• Encouraging new webdevs to contribute
  • University outreach
    • Doc Sprints
    • Career fairs
  • “Help us help people like you”
  • Connect the dots with the testing efforts, design efforts, and all special communities
• Recognition & Rewards
  • Badges
  • Points
  • By-lines
  • Major Contributor
    • All-stars page
    • Blog profiles/interviews
    • Rotating items on screen before, during, and after each event
      • hint – promote one person getting a job out of one weekend, and participation will start to spike
• Surfacing community activity on front page
  • Link to Getting Started on www page
  • Latest changes
  • Latest discussions
  • Latest scope expansions
  • Latest team highlights
• Press kit?
  • engage with the game changer conversation
  • clear and consistent story
  • real status updates on news (make it interesting to follow up)
• Comm plan?