{"id":1258,"date":"2013-07-29T23:17:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2013-07-29T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:53:56","slug":"community-building-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2013\/07\/29\/community-building-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Building &#8211; Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we are scaling again. I&#8217;ve had a pretty interesting week or so chatting with Rejeeb Abdulrahiman from Qatar who&#8217;s giving some great traction in setting up a Mozilla Community in the region.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been around this block a couple of times; helping new Mozilla communities setup and scale with every time being a new exciting experience with a diverse group of great individuals this time being with Rejeeb who&#8217;s just 15 years old with some pretty amazing insights on cultivating a Mozilla community in Qatar. A point to note though that is quite timely with what I&#8217;m working on right now: <a title=\"Contribute Toolkit\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Toolkit\" target=\"_blank\">the Contribute Toolkit<\/a> is that there are several steps that pop up whenever a new community does so; documenting this would be a great complement to what mentors\/community builders do in supporting the growth of Mozilla. So decided, a checklist\/howto setup a community is going up on the toolkit&#8230;more on that later.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Mozilla Qatar&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we have a small group of young people really looking forward to get the community off the ground. A first <a title=\"Planning Meeting\" href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/remo-qatar-getting-started\" target=\"_blank\">planning meeting<\/a> was held that yielded a couple of <strong>ideas<\/strong> for a first community event to be held along with some <strong>action items<\/strong> for people to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of <strong>FAQs<\/strong> I usually get and did get in this instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Mozilla all about coding?\n<ul>\n<li>No there a bunch of non-technical contribution opportunities such as : SUMO, QA, Affiliates, Localization, visual Design, Education (Webmaker) etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Benefits around contributing\/supporting Mozilla, to be more specific, are there rewards for contributions? This could probably phrase to why should I contribute\n<ul>\n<li>We do give swag from time to time \ud83d\ude42 though some great rewards as a contributor could be noted as:\n<ul>\n<li>Synergies: you get peer support from highly qualified mozillians to help\/give feedback on personal stuff you are working on that relate with Mozilla<\/li>\n<li>Career (Resume): Mozilla is a real life organization with actual projects and problems for you to get involved with and solve which builds your experience in your field of profession<\/li>\n<li>Interact and meet with really smart and creative people: who work and contribute at Mozilla<\/li>\n<li>Mentorship: great thing about Mozilla, we don&#8217;t lock you out over lack of experience, if you feel you can do something with some help, you&#8217;ll be right at home over here with great mentors ready to help when you get stuck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Can Mozilla be supported through functional areas created and managed by local contributors?\n<ul>\n<li>Great way to diversify and support local contributors. It&#8217;s encouraged to work together with the already existing functional areas when coordinating local activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rejeeb is now prepping for a 50 pax event later on in September. We are gathering ideas <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/remo-qatar-getting-started\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to make it a success, do feel free to give some input.<\/p>\n<p>ps: Facebook page&#8217;s also up: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mozillaqatar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we are scaling again. I&#8217;ve had a pretty interesting week or so chatting with Rejeeb Abdulrahiman from Qatar who&#8217;s giving some great traction in setting up a Mozilla &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2013\/07\/29\/community-building-qatar\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,23318,23323],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}