327774 - Consider working to develop and support Mozilla User Groups

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org :: Governance, task)

Description

[Zak Greant]

At the FireFox Summit, several Mozilla Corporation staff expressed an interest in having Mozilla User Groups (MUGs).

Some of the issues to consider are:
 * is some part of the community interested in MUGs?
 * how would MUGs benefit the Mozilla project?
 * how would MUGs benefit the Mozilla community?
 * what could the MUGs do?
 * user groups that center around applications tend to be less vibrant than UGs that focus on programming languages and tools (ie. consider DBMS UGs vs. programming UGs)
 * perhaps an initiative to bring Mozilla-related content to Linux, Perl, Web Dev, etc. UGs might be more effective.

People who might be able to help us think in this area include:
 * Asa
 * Dria
 * Jay Patel (who initially raised the idea)
 * ...

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

zak: Would this not fall better under the new Governance component?

Comment 2

[Zak Greant]

Hi Reed,

After spending a wee bit of quality time with Wikipedia, I agree.

Thanks!
--zak

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

zak: Don't forget to select "Reassign bug to default assignee and QA contact of selected component" when you move a bug to another component.

Comment 4

[Zak Greant]

No responses.

Putting issue on hold until:

a) Someone steps up to raise them again
- or -
b) Other high-priority tasks are completed

Comment 5

[Zak Greant]

We should support any user groups that spontaneously form (like the community-based user groups in Japan), but we shouldn't currently worry about starting them ourselves.