2019 Mozilla Communities & Contributors Survey

Hey all,

As many of you might remember, in 2017 the Open Innovation Team conducted a first-of-its kind research project, in which they surveyed over 1,000 volunteers and ran a quantitative study looking at 16 years of contribution data in Bugzilla, GitHub, on email lists and elsewhere to help inform the organization about how they could ‘revitalize participation’ at Mozilla. The results not only provided invaluable insights into the communities but also informed the Open by Design strategy, which they have been steadily implementing.

Now, we plan to repeat this comprehensive “pulse check” of the contributor communities and hope for as stellar survey completion rates as 2017! We will need 10 minutes of your time to help us better understand Mozilla’s relationships with volunteers and collaborators. We have added a few new questions related to contributor community diversity and inclusion, issues in which we invest quite a lot of our hearts and time.

The survey is localized in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic and can be found in the links below:

Please note that it will be open until May 3rd. Open Innovation aim to publish the results together with the findings of the contribution data analysis this Summer and will communicate progress steps along the way.

In all of this work, we are handling data in line with our Mozilla Privacy Policy and in close consultation with Mozilla’s legal and trust teams.

Many thanks to everyone in advance for their participation!