Re: Beta criteria for Community Development

I added this item:

* Benefits of contributing to WPD are articulated and are communicated 
to new members.

But can you give me an idea of what kinds of benefits and perks you're 
thinking of?

Is it intangibles like:
* Learn about web standards technologies as you help document them
* Feel satisfaction from knowing you're contributing to improving the 
state of web standards documentation for all web developers
* Build relationships with an international open team of webdev and 
techcom professionals

Or things like:
* Earn nifty badges
* Score cool swag
?

--Janet


On 5/8/13 4:18 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
> Looks good Janet. The only thing I thought you might want to explicitly state is something about clearly stating the perks/benefits of contributing to the community - community members will want to be clear on what the incentives are.
>
> So perhaps something like
>
> "Work out and implement mechanisms for giving community members perks/benefits when they contribute to WPD. Make it clear what those benefits are to prospective new members."
>
> ?
>
> Chris Mills
> Opera Software, dev.opera.com
> W3C Fellow, web education and webplatform.org
> Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://goo.gl/AKf9M)
>
> On 8 May 2013, at 00:08, Janet Swisher <jswisher@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> I've taken a stab at setting criteria for declaring "Beta" for Community Development [1]. It seems a little weird to use a label like "Beta" for a community, but I'm taking it mean that the community is moving from the "inception" stage to the "establishment" stage of the community life cycle. A big part of that is implementing capture and tracking of metrics so we can tell which stage we're in.
>>
>> If these criteria look good, I'll submit issues in Bug Genie for implementing them. (I'm not even sure that what I want can be done with mailman and MediaWiki; we can discuss that in the BG issues.)
>>
>> [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Project_Status#Goals_for_Community
>> -- 
>> Janet Swisher
>> Mozilla Developer Network
>> Developer Engagement Community Organizer
>


-- 
Janet Swisher <mailto:jREMOVEswisher@mozilla.com>
Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org>
Developer Engagement Community Organizer