 I work with Fedora in community operations, diversity and metrics, and I am an outreach intern with Mozilla this time, and my work is sort of similar, mostly in community, diversity and metrics there too, and I really like analyzing data and finding patterns. So whatever I try to do, I mean whatever strategies I try to generate for the community, I try to get a support with data for them, like so in this talk I will mostly be talking about how to improve contributor retention rates in your community, and I have some data to support whatever thoughts or whatever plans I am proposing here, and along with that I have also tried to find some patterns from successful contributors, and I have also taken help from Mozilla research in this area, and I also, I will also be talking about my experiences and how it can help. We will also have some time for open discussion and questions, so I think it should be enough. So metrics, I am very excited about metrics always. So these are some graphs from the Fedora community. So in Fedora we have a FAS account system for contributors, so if you want to contribute to Fedora everyone has to sign up for a FAS account and then you can go on to contributing in whichever area you like, whether you want to file a bug or I don't know, put some packages or contribute code or translate documentation, anything. So this shows the number of new users who signed up for FAS account in that year, and in this graph I have tried to contribute, I have tried to analyze the users according to their contribution activity. So just before I explain anything I want you to remember that this data is on until June 2016 and not post that because I haven't worked on pulling data after that yet, but I am working on it and yeah. So as you can see, so there is a, there is quite a rise in the number of Fedora accounts, but here if you can see the orange represents short term contributors, these are contributors who joined the Fedora community and left within 3 months, so they joined the community and after 3 months of the joining date there was no activity for these accounts. The blue ones are the long term ones which also had an activity after 3 months and even after 1 year, so they continued and the inactive ones are ones which just created accounts and they had very few activity, so I mean I don't want to club them with the short term ones because for short term I actually wanted only those contributors who joined and contributed something to the community, did some work, but then the left, I don't know why, but the left and I want to, I want to help in increasing the retention rates of these short term contributors, these orange blocks, so as you can see this number has been rising over the years, I mean I am not sure if you should consider the 2016 data because it is only for 6 months and we have a long list of inactive contributors because there was a lot of spamming in Fedora accounts, like a lot of spammers just created fast accounts and they didn't do anything, so don't consider the 2016 one but at least till 2015 as you can see the numbers have been rising and I don't know about more than 50% of the contributors are just short term, I mean they joined, they contribute for sometime and leave within the first 3 months, so we have had 5000 new fast accounts but only like 20% of these remain active after 1 year, they go on to become long term contributors and 50% of them actually contribute but then they leave and I don't know why, so these 50% they must be interested in contributing, they came, they did some activity but they left, so we want to increase this, we want to help reduce this number and probably improve the community health too, so I have been talking with other people in Mozilla and other force communities and they also have this problem of retaining their contributors, so I have been trying to analyze why this happens and what we can do to stop it, so I tried to talk to some contributors in Fedora community and I mean I sort of conducted a survey and the participants in the survey had contributions in technical and non-technical areas, they contributed to different parts of the Fedora project, they also contributed to some other projects and they were not necessarily red hat employees, I mean and they have been, as you can see this is a pie chart of how long they had been contributing in the community, so they are equally well distributed amongst long term contributors, short term ones and like contributors have been in the Fedora community for really really long time, that's like more than 3 years. That is what I learned from it, so a strong positive and inclusive community matters a lot, so I mean this graph shows the primary reasons of why contributors continue contributing to Fedora project and why some people said work, some people just said like they like the project, that's what I mean by work, they like their contribution, they like the area and what they work on, some people said the community motivates them, but mostly it's a factor of both, as you can see it's 75% of the respondents are like yes the work and community both matters a lot to them, so it just won't matter if your project is very interesting, if what you are giving out, I mean if someone is very interested in that area and they are bringing a lot to your project, the community in your project also needs to be inclusive and positive and you are the people who can help make that.