Weeks of Contribution 2016 - FAQ

June 11, 2016

What is Weeks Of Contributions ?

  • Weeks Of Contribution (WOC) is an initiative started by MozillaTN contributors who were contributing to various Contribution areas of Mozilla.

What is difference between last year and this year WOC?

  • Last year we used hangouts on Air, to broadcast to large
  • This year all calls will be closed Google hangout and also presentation are shared audience. We are not able to focus dedicately to the people who were contributing.
  • We didn’t have have trainers - Contributors like structure.
  • We didn’t give letter of appreciation to anyone.

Why we introduced Trainers this year?

  • We have some goals and want to build MozillaTN community Stronger.
  • We want to improve leadership skills of Students and expose them to great things.

What are Goals of This year WOC2016 ?

  • With help of 20 Trainers, bringing another 50 Contributors who can contribute for Long time.
    1. For Localisation converting 5000 strings in Tamil
    2. For SUMO, Converting all the KB articles in Tamil
    3. For QA, participating in Test days, finding bugs and filling 1 bug per contributor.
    4. For Add-ons developing 1 add-on per trainer.

Who are Trainers ?

  • Trainers are amazing contributors who had passion to teach their Friends in their College or City or Neighbours.

What is Criteria to be Trainer?

  • Trainers need not be well trained contributor. We want People who can learn from others easily and teach it to others.
  • Having a very Good blog to share what they have learnt (having blog in open source community is very important part of knowledge sharing)

When will the trainers be trained ?

  • Trainers will be trained 3 days before (Wednesday) the actual date of the session. So the plan as of now is to train on Following dates for trainers
    1. June 29th - Localization
    2. July 13th - Firefox Nightly (QA)
    3. July 27th - SUMO
    4. August 10th - Add-ons (using Web Extension API)

Is there content for trainers online or will we get some other form of tutoring?

  • First mentor will train Trainers on Wednesday
  • On The same day, the Presentations in the Mail for those who attended, so the same presentation can be used for Training other contributors Under Trainers.

Where will we trainers do the WOC? In specific locations or our colleges or any place?

  • WOC is fully a volunteer initiative, every one here are contributors, there can be different places to share knowledge. It is upto Trainer to choose any offline place.

What is the goals of trainers in WOC?

  • The main goal is to introduce tools used in Open Source Communities. With respect to Localization and SUMO we are going to teach how the Localization is used in companies like Redhat, Mozilla and so on. Why it is important ?
  • With respect to QA, we will be learning more about Manual Testing and how we will be filling the bugs in proper way.
  • With Add-ons development we will be seeing how to develop Extensions for Firefox.

Should the trainers have any basic knowledge on the subject? (If so please enlist them in detail.)

  • We expect Trainers need to having willingness to teach others & writing blog as they learn and teach others

Could the time schedule be made flexible in accordance with the trainers schedule?

  • We have 2 weeks between any two Contribution areas. So in between this week any day Trainers can sit with contributors and continue their work
    1. July 2nd to July 14th - Localization
    2. July 16th to July 28th - Firefox Nightly (QA)
    3. July 30th to August 11th- SUMO
    4. August 13th to August 25- Add-ons (using Webextension API)

Note: In this dates we will track the impact of each contributor and so we can mention them in final stats & but after this dates also contributors can continuously contribute and enrich their skills

Is there any restriction on the number of contributors per trainer? Yes, We Mentors (4) are planning to restrict upto 20 Trainers. We need to focus on all the 20 trainers so we can help easily. And also we want to Trainers to restrict themselves to 5-7

What will Trainers be given at the end of Successful WOC 2016

  • The ultimate aim is mainly knowledge sharing so Trainers & contributors will be getting enough knowledge to participate in Mozilla Contirbution
  • But We are also preparing Letter of Appreciation for Trainers & contributors (who are under Trainers) separately , which is sent by Mozilla Reps (Viswaprasth & Khaleel)
  • For Trainers alone we are planning to give recommendation on Linkedin

Where will the mentors train the trainers?

  • All the trainers will be trained by Mentors in Closed Google Hangouts call, we also will prefer to use Etherpad to get the questions
  • If many Prefer to learn in IRC channel we will go with IRC

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