German-speaking Mozilla Community Meetup February 2014

2014-02-23 at 23:34:25

TL;DR: Great meetup, let's work on our defined goals for 2014!

On the 8th of February 2014 we had our second "German-speaking Mozilla Community" Meetup after rebooting the community. In this blog post I'd like to review the event and tell you about our 2014 goals.

Not 100% achieved 2013 goals

• Not a lot of new faces on this year's meetup
• Even though there was a lot going on, the coordination within the groups was not great. Also overall communication can be improved.
• "Contribute" form is hard to process -> almost no visible new contributors
• It's hard to find new contributors for Marketing and Localization We splitted up in different groups: L10N/Support, Hacking and a "miscellaneous" group.

Let's review our goals for 2014

L10N/Support

• Goal: Find more contributors

• Goal: Improve the German articles on SUMO, MDN

• Goal: Improve the German translation of Firefox, Firefox OS

• Solution: organize different Sprints during the year. The next sprint will be on the 5th and 6th of April in Berlin Hacking:

• Goal: Find more contributors

• Solution: organize multiple "Mozilla Hacking Days". The next event will be on the 26th of April in Berlin (to be definitely confirmed)

• Solution: use the momentum of the first Hacking Day to organize a second Hacking Day. At the second event we fully go "non-Mozillians", i.e. as many interested, possible contributors as possible Miscellaneous:

Firefox OS

• Goal: find new app developers and create localized apps

• Goal: promote Firefox OS in Germany

• Solution: organize multiple Firefox OS App Days in Germany/Austria/Switzerland

• Firefox OS App Day Zurich (planning ongoing)

• Firefox OS App Day Vienna (planning ongoing)

• Firefox OS App Day Munich (planning pending)

• Other Firefox OS App Days to be specified Marketing:

• Goal: find new contributors for posts on Twitter, Facebook, ...

• Solution: probably use already existing contributors in other areas Webmaker:

• Goal: organize multiple Webmaker events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

• Goal: organize a OpenBadges event in Switzerland

• Goal: organize a "All Things Web" bi-weekly course in Switzerland (probably in cooperation with the Open Tech School)

• Solution: Meeting with Michelle Thorne on the 4th of April to discuss the ideas

The different groups will inform about the progress in the #deMeeting on the 5th of March.

Community Building Brainstorming

At the end of the day we had a "Community Building" session. Here's the outcome/brainstorming:

• Use badges for contributors
• Identify Student Ambassadors in Germany
• Response to "Contribute" form needs to be edited
• Reach out to other tech communities to find new contributors
• Better integration of Mozilla employees
• Inform other communities about our next events (JS groups, user groups, ...)
• Big Mozilla Hacking Days (see above)

Thanks again for joining us! See all photos on Henrik's flickr page.