MCS - Mozilla Community Sites

[Majken Connor]

(writing this message with the CBT list as the audience, but cc-ing MCS
list as well)

Hi all,

A discussion I wanted to get going - I've been working with the Community
IT Team as well as forming a Community WebDev Team. Community IT has also
been approached by another team to use our model to connect community sites
with their services (I didn't ask if it's ready to share yet so leaving the
name off). We think it makes sense for Community IT and Community WebDev
etc to be subgroups of a Mozilla Community Sites initiative, similarly to
how CBT has its working groups.

Community sites give a great opportunity to work with volunteers for teams
who for legal and security reasons can't let volunteers help with internal
resources. They offer opportunities to mentor volunteers through developing
new skills. On the flip side, it helps improve the community sites through
better infrastructure and better development and provides resources to
smaller communities.

In turn of course this should help support the local communities, community
projects (not necessarily locally based, eg Dev Derby) and help towards the
goal of growing to 20k contributors.

To start I wanted to see what the CBT group thought of this, if this seems
like a natural partnership between CBT and these groups. If so we already
have some specific needs, for example with skills mentorship, but we'd also
want to hear more from your side about what you think would be beneficial
and where we could support each other.

[David Boswell]

I'm very supportive of what the Mozilla Communities Sites initiative wants to do and I would love to see more activity going on to make that a more useful resource. The working group model idea seems to make sense too -- it definitely sounds worth trying.

I personally see the local community sites around the world as a key way that people connect with Mozilla. I think it is worthwhile for us to be more explicit about how those local sites serve that function. To help with that, I've included local community sites to the 'Opportunities to connect at scale' document we're working on at:

https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/opportunities-to-connect-at-scale

So, considering the connection function of those local sites, it seems to certainly be something that we should discuss on the community building list since we're looking here at a range of different ways we can connect new people to the project.

Thanks,
David

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