I wanted to get feedback on a Get Involved dashboard the Metrics team
is working on. You can see it at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=566974
This is meant to give us useful information about the effectiveness of
the 'Want to Help?' form that people use to express interest in
contributing to Mozilla.
Right now we just have basic information about total number of
inquiries coming in and the number of replies existing Mozillians are
sending out to those inquiries. You can see those stats at:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla.org/Contribute/Form_stats
I'd like the dashboard to also show the project areas people are
interested in as well as having a success metric to show how many
people ended up contributing.
There may be other metrics that would be useful to include, so I'd be
very interested to hear feedback about what else people want in a
dashboard.
For example, the Metrics team suggested that we tag inquiries with a
rating system (such as a promising lead or spam). That sounds great
to me, but would require changing how we handle inquiries since the
current mailing list system doesn't let us capture that.
So another question is, would people be open to changing the current
process for gathering and responding to inquiries in order to get
additional metrics?
David