 So just to get started we're gonna be talking about just the different routes to contribution I understand that many of you have been sort of very very high contact with Mozilla projects for a long time And it seemed a little bit silly to be like hi. It's my second day. Let me tell you your business So this is just gonna be like very 101 For those of you who are experts will have a little bit at the end about getting the most out of your contributions So let's see how that works Just to go ahead and recap my name is Jessica Rose. It is my second day, and I'm having a very weird first week at work Usually I have a little bit of time to be like what what's that term are you saying yeah Oh, and no this time. I'm just gonna fake it live on stage and let you all know when I don't know something Because this is gonna be a really 101 level talk It might not be immediately applicable to everybody who's been sort of a super expert folks who have been around for a long time For the folks who are just the best of the best and great at everything. Can you look very raising your hand is a bit bold Can you look smug? Or or laugh loud For those of you who may not get as much value out of a 101 level talk, I've added a bribe at the end So this is my second day at Mozilla We're getting to know each other the most interesting thing about me is I have very ugly cats And if it is like no your cats aren't ugly if you make it to the end of the talk Make it very very 101 level and this might be really really great for those of you who haven't had a lot of contact with Mozilla Or you're just looking to get involved and really the reason I joined in Mozilla Is about what we're doing what we're trying to do and this is I know mission statements are always terrible as a concept Not this one. Please continue to pay me But it's really really challenging to look at a mission statement and say wow I really believe in that but for Mozilla I really believe in this And I know it sounds very earnest in American accent very like yay team But this is something that it's not too hard to get behind Building a better internet and then drilling down a little bit further to say do you know what and this in the age of owning everything seems so bold saying To have the internet as a public resource That's really really fantastic that it should be available to everyone that puts people first that the Individuals shape their own internet is yeah pretty exciting but also Wow a pretty tall order So how that actually happens Some of us get to work at Mozilla for a full time and it's fantastic But there's not actually that many of us all together The way Mozilla's historically been able to do this and hopefully the way that it's going to continue to work in a future Is having quite a bit of time and actually now that's like 20 years two months and three weeks Nobody Google that but thousands of volunteers and contributors just people all around the world doing small and big things Unfortunately when I say countless I mean countless Being able to count the code contributions or the changes people have made to documentation or translations That's something we can sit down and crunch the numbers on But every time somebody's helped out at an event or every time somebody's taught something new or every time somebody's shared knowledge is really almost impossible to count so I really marvel at the idea of Contributions so numerous that we're unable to really grasp them And we're to look at a bunch of different avenues for contributing Based on the kind of person you are the kind of stuff you like to do and the kind of stuff that you will not do No matter what and no one can make you Who here absolutely loves people For those of you watching on the video we have fantastic mixed response where some people are like yeah I'm not gonna point where but no like visibly no If you love people and you want to be around people and this is your whole thing There are a ton of fantastic ways to get involved with the Mozilla community or with contributing in person Unfortunately, this next slide is very very localized and makes a lot less sense in English So I'm gonna over explain it and make sure it's not funny. So in English when you say someone's a ham It's pretty much this it's like, oh, I love attention and being on stick What would that be in French? Is there a term for that? We don't we don't have that in French like To the general consensus is like, oh god, no, why would anybody want that? If you are a ham if you love attention if you're not shy or if you want to be less shy Coming out to an event kind of get a big scary conference like Flostam or coming to a smaller local meetup to share knowledge to share Stuff you've worked on or share stuff you care about can be a really fantastic Sort of high-energy intensive way to share that knowledge and get involved with community Share your experiences through speaking can be absolutely terrifying But there is a miss. Oh, hey, how can I help you? One more time. Can somebody else confirm that I'm not gonna be swearing if I say that State I've never wanted a tattoo before but like Mozilla actually has a program if you're interested in getting into public speaking and getting into a little bit of support and Seeing how we can help you with this and that's a tech speakers program So the applications in the process for that for 2019 is just closed But that's gonna come back in 2020 and that involves a lot of help with Speaker training a lot of help with that traveling logistics and just a really great community to learn from I will warn that they that we've we've I work here now. I actually work on this program, too So there's no excuse We've had a whole lot of really exciting applicants around that so it's been really really challenging to make the choice around that Still, please apply. We'll just send you a really polite response if we run out of space The most polite response with a picture of a hand And you say just just just because we're on a first-name basis and you say why do I want to speak and I say well Because it's cool. If you're speaking here in Europe the convention I live in Europe, too. Well, I live in the UK. I live in Europe for Two more months and then you all push us into the sea. Oh, they don't let me vote. They don't let me vote. I Don't get to do Brexit jokes at home. So this is No, it luckily this isn't being videotaped or streamed and everything is fine And you might say why do I want to get into public speaking? The first thing is generally I found the convention in Europe is that no matter how bad you do People have to come up afterwards. And the only thing they're allowed to say is like, oh, yeah, that went really well. Good job They can't say mean things if your Experiences may vary But everybody's very polite people want you to succeed Worst thing and people are gonna say is like, oh good talk. The worst thing people are gonna say is this isn't a question It's more of a comment, but that's a different thing I Love how like the one public speaker there was like, yes It's also a really fantastic way to grow your profile. Not only do people clap and tell you you did a good job But you get your name out there to be really fantastic for networking, which is a scary word Or meeting people and really establishing your expertise But because we're on a first name basis, you might say Jess. No, I hate that. I'm not a stage beast Please don't make me and that's cool. You still like you like people You want to be doing stuff with other people and you do not want to get on stage. We got this You're probably and this is another weird English idiom You're probably a mastermind somebody ready to put together the big picture and do a lot of planning Is there a French word for that? Oh Are we on the French side of Brussels? I'm going to stop asking for localizations Unless someone speaks Flemish, then I've got a lot of questions That's a cool language You don't want to speak, but you do want to be involved in events Either just participating just being part of the community either coming to see a talk and laughing politely Or helping out or helping you work the booth Or volunteering for them. Well, I don't know what events are out there You have no excuse. Here's a link or you can search for Mozilla events. What are they please? And If you do want to be out there and if you do want to be out at events, but you want it to be a little bit more official you say well I'd really like a little bit of credit for this. I'm really great if you want to be I don't know an official representative, maybe Represent Mozilla throughout the community in person online. There's a Mozilla reps program And it's a really really fantastic way to be sort of a designated person who exists out in the community doing cool Mozilla stuff if you're doing great stuff Always try and get credit for it You say just just just that's great I've come to Faustum or I'm streaming this because actually I don't want to be around people all the time What have you got for me? Code No, we got a lot of non non-human interaction options You still have to interact with people, but they're filtered through that that wonderful wonderful invention of the internet You say do you know what I just want to Contribute some code. I just want to build a little bit of stuff I want to work on this thing and I want to see your best stock photo of a hacker Which I thought was fantastic for those of you who can't see it. It literally says file cliche hacker and binary code Currently contributing code to Mozilla projects Look at y'all It's day two. Come on some flat If you aren't and there are a lot of people who are you and you want to try it out This is a fantastic way to sort of flex learn some things get get some experience and you can just start here This is pretty easy to maintain remember and again search exists be like how do I can I'm not gonna walk you through how to search Come around you say yes, we've been through a couple options yet. I People are okay. I can't do too many of them. I Don't really want to do a lot of code stuff. I am inherently artistic. I'm a design maven I have some great things. I want to do Fantastic, how about we just give you an open design community to do cool weird design stuff with See, you know uptake in the audience was like, yeah design Okay, you are a super interested in designers a little bit too shocked. Come see me after class. I Used to be a teacher. So I'm loving the layout For those of you watching at home. We're actually in a classroom. I'm not being very very strange And you said yes, I am incredibly passionate about documentation And if that's true No, no where no like For those of you who I didn't break by saying I really love documentation I should point out that documentation makes everything work Wait, who reads the documentation when they get started? I have answered a lot of support questions in my day So some of you are lying But we're still cool Documentation makes everything work contributing to documentation. I Genuinely believe is one of the like farthest reaching things you can do with your time if you got time to contribute You say wow, I'm not sold. Okay What if you don't have to do it check out what's going on at the end? What contributing might mean what they do even if you don't want to do it spend two or three minutes Glancing at the page and then just appreciate the heck out of the folks who do do it You say wow Jess Because we're having a conversation where you say my name a lot which gets a little bit creepy. I mostly want to write code But I am also gloriously multi-lingual I could example tell you how to say stage beast in French which I've completely blanked I'd really like to be able to make sure that either the documentation that's so incredibly precious or The products themselves that live out there are available in my language and in this hypothetical conversation I say wow You're incredibly good if you did want to contribute to translation and localization This is a fantastic way to make sure everybody out there can access things when we talk about the internet as sort of a public resource when we talk about the Individual value of being able to make the web work for you. It's not about The web as a public resource for those who speak English It's really about anybody out there who needs to be able to access it So if you speak multiple Who here's from like Europe proper? Y'all speak like four languages Like no no six And Especially if you speak a language that speaking like a language that isn't as common in the documentation that exists out there just spent I Know people love to argue on the internet. I'm an old lady. I've seen some stuff if you want to argue about translations Do it do it nicely say okay? That's a bunch of different stuff. That's great What if I just want to see everything what if I don't want to have a really really abstract artificial conversation? Were you walk me through all the options? I? Think that that says Mozilla comm slash contribute. Is that true? That's fine It's my second day, and I've been told you can't get fired in your first week is official. No, that's that's that's totally true So yeah, there is so much more I've only really touched on the top level of everything's going on say hey You can do stuff in person. You can do stuff with code. You can do stuff with design There are an incredible number of projects. Are you really really excited of about? Augmented reality. Are you really excited about web back? Are you really excited about we? Determined that many of us were not super excited about documentation But I am so happy to meet you in the cafeteria and like politely argue this out All of it's here, and it's all here in like glorious detail that more so it's not just hi Please come do this work. There's also an incredible amount of just campaigns So those of us who will remain in Europe Not jealous But there's a lot of really really strong net neutrality things going on out here And there's a lot of really really challenging things that have been going on back and forth in other markets Being able to take a look at what kinds of campaigns exist What kinds of sort of quick wins there are in activism or quick wins in projects This is a really really fantastic resource to say what's going on near you and What kinds of Mozilla projects or programs might be able to help you support what you're already doing? But in this hypothetical conversation we're having you say Jess I am I knew that Thank you very much because you have to be polite to speakers you say thank you good talk I already knew all of this so we're gonna talk a little bit about how to get a little bit more out of contributing So who right you could you could either raise your hand or look very pleased with yourself Who here currently contributes to Mozilla in any way? So keep it up if you have that on your CV or resume Okay, that was weird because you're like I don't contribute, but it's on my wrist I'm so sorry that was very mean like good call Please please please if you are contributing and I don't not that I don't care if you contribute code But if you're contributing things at events if you're helping manage things if you're working on design if you're working on organizational stuff Please list that Make sure that you're tailoring your CV to the stuff you really care about and make sure that you're getting the credit for stuff You need Networking sounds very business-like and it sounds terrible like oh hi Miss business. Oh, hi, Mr. Business. Would you like to do a business? I have no idea how adults do things. I am But networking isn't all about like oh good day, Mr. Business. I don't I hope not Being able to get in touch with people either on or offline and work on projects you genuinely care about is Something that's really valuable and choosing to contribute is especially interesting because you get to choose Who here is absolutely? Oh, who here's with their manager? Don't don't like just Absolutely delighted with the way their work handles their professional development. They give you everything you need to progress just in your interests. Oh Usually I get like a low. No, but like Mozilla dev room You it's your choice what you contribute in what you do you can focus on the skills you want to learn the stuff you want to see in your CV and You can focus on stuff that aligns with projects Your friends are working on or your heroes are working on or like that person you'd really want to work with is working on I want to take just a little tiny detour because so far we've been saying hey Contributing is fantastic and here are the ways you can do it and that's not going to change That's going to remain the message But contributing isn't always something that's easy for everyone So if you're in a position right now where you can't contribute to projects that is completely okay Keep in mind that when you talk about contributing when you talk about volunteering You're talking about working effectively for free working for something you love and that's something that's not cost-neutral for everybody if you're someone that has if you're a single parent if you have small children if you have a toxic job if You have a lot to do right now if you're on vacation Are you on vacate? somebody was giggling I Also see me after class. I'm gonna fuss at you to take vacations with no conferences Not everybody is in a position where they can contribute right now or They can contribute at all and that's fine It's okay to contribute not contribute. You don't have to contribute to be Part of the technical community. You don't have to contribute to be part of the Missila community But the responsibility for those of us in the community to lower barriers wherever possible is so important to say wow How can we make it? How can we make it? Easier for people to contribute in those ways. How can we lower barriers? How can we make this less stressful and Talking to folks who are really interested in the mission and I'm not sure I'm sure there must be someone out there who isn't interested in the mission of a free open personally accessible internet and But I don't think I've met them yet And I'd like to think they'd phrase that differently If you're talking to folks who aren't able to contribute I guess that you remember why Missila exists and why we're here and why we're aiming to make the community so open It's the very same mission statement, but these are the things I think are the most important around contributions We're talking about making the internet a public resource. That's open and accessible to everyone. We're individuals not individuals That have time to contribute not individuals that have the technical skills or the documentation skills or the design skills to shape these products But everyone out there is able to access the web that's best for them to recap I'd really like to talk about how If you get nothing out if you've been dozing this whole time you're fantastic at sleeping through noise. I Love to hear your secrets Contributing volunteering is something you can do around your needs if your needs have the flexibility It's something that I'd love to not see anybody burning themselves out over I'd love to see it done in healthy ways, but if you can contribute you can contribute in ways that suit you best And it is something that should and I think it is something that can Have tangible value to you both professional experience Learning experiences and a really great opportunity to network without saying like oh, I'd like to do a business And it's something that isn't necessarily available to everyone right now and our jobs as the folks who are contributing different ways Are to lower those barriers and to continue to build for the folks who aren't building alongside us yet? Thank you so much The hard part is now you have to like pretend to make a face like this is cute really Cuz like wow nobody's ever gotten no out loud before And if you do want to I'd love feedback I'd love if anyone's like good talk These are places you could find me on the internet. Thank you very much Thank you so much Jessica. I was wondering if any of you has any questions Because we do have like two three minutes for that If not, yes, you can always reach Jessica especially on Twitter. I know she's active there, so I Didn't stop her yet on other channels Okay, good. Thank you so much