Fw: Next Steps for the Uganda Community

[Alex Wafula]

Loved this post so though I'd share it here:

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Brian King <brik...@gmail.com>
To: Mozilla Uganda <communit...@lists.mozilla.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:44 PM
Subject: Next Steps for the Uganda Community

Hi All,

By request of San James and inspiration from him, I have put together a message to try and help you get more involved with Mozilla. I hope you find it useful and of course questions and feedback are welcome.

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Mozilla is working on tools to help get more contributors involved and better engaged. This includes a taskboard, events manager, and an improved phonebook. For reference, see this recent blog post and presentation:

http://aakash.doesthings.com/2012/03/19/community-tools-platforms-roadmap-2012/
http://htmlpad.org/community-tools-roadmap-2012/
Video: http://vid.ly/0j3y7t

With this better infrastructure will come better rewards for contributors. This will includes Mozillian public profiles, badges, events, and where appropriate material items such as t-shirts.

However, much of your work in the Mozilla Community needs to be self-motivated. Much of the time there will not be any hand-holding. Take the initiative. If you are on board with Mozilla's mission and the Open Web, use that as an inspiration to drive you.

In the meantime, we need to work with what we have, and there is a lot out there if you know where to look. For convenience, let us identify 5 areas to start with where you can get involved. With each one are some links to get you started.

Boot To Gecko
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This is Mozilla's mobile Web platform.

https://mozilla.org/b2g/
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko

Add-ons
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Learning add-on development is a great way to add to your skills, provide useful tools to people, and make an impact. Use the Add-ons SDK or Add-ons Builder to get started.

https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/builder

Localisation
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Localisation is still crucial for any community who want to make an impact among all speakers of your native language(s). Break up your activities into 2 areas, product and web.

Product includes Firefox (desktop and mobile) and Thunderbird.

Web properties include SUMO, Mozilla Add-ons, and much much more.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n
https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Overview
https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Resources

Evangelism
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Talk about HTML5 and the Open Web! Make a Web App. Help write documentation.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism
https://developer.mozilla.org/Project:en/How_to_Help

Web Makers
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Mozilla wants everyone in society to be a Web Maker.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmakers

Other projects to get involved with are Hackasaurus, core hacking, QA, SUMO (support). There are more, find the one that suits you. See:

http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/areas.html

If you need guidance when getting started, there are people who can help. Apart from posting on Mozilla mailing lists, there are folks known as Stewards designated to particular areas:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute#Stewards

Building a community is different in every country and region. One size does not fit all. But remember to collaborate with and learn from others. Read this great post from Nukeador of Mozilla Hispano on how to organise a Mozilla community:

http://www.nukeador.com/09/12/2011/organizing-a-mozilla-community/

So as you can see there is plenty to do, and Mozilla needs you to help out. I am looking forward to see the work Mozilla Uganda does moving forward.

Regards,
-- Brian King | Briks Software: Mozilla Development
@brianking @briks_si
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[Hezron Obuchele]

Cool, thanks.

Hezron
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