Project:New contributors

How to keep track of volunteers and connect them with interesting activities?

The problem
We have problem in the whole contribution cycle:


 * Lack of common memory about contributors
 * Multiple usernames in multiple tools: MediaWiki, Gerrit, Bugzilla, Mailman, IRC...
 * We rely on multiple lists maintained (or not) by various people in different places.
 * Many contributors are found out of mediawiki.org e.g. Wikipedia or Labs.
 * User profiles are plain text, frequently outdated. Currently not useful.
 * Difficult to promote activities to contributors
 * Every time we start almost from scratch.
 * Social media and community communication channels are ok but too broad.
 * Manual pokes in user Talk pages don't scale, are unequally effective are not trivial to follow-up.
 * We lack ways to broadcast selectively by topic.
 * Difficult to connect new volunteers with a first task
 * It's not trivial to arrive and find a task by yourself.
 * We don't know how many newcomers never dare to ask.
 * Those who ask find that it's not easy to get started.
 * It's not easy to give a task to someone landing with a vague request in an email.
 * Most probably the memory is lost after a few weeks.
 * Difficult to find peers and stay in touch
 * Difficult to find inactive contributors and follow-up