Sugar Labs/Volunteer Funnel

The Volunteer Pathway

We believe that new volunteers typically follow a path similar to the following:

1. Become aware of Sugar
2. Find Sugar
3. Try and successfully use Sugar
4. Decide that Sugar is "sweet", i.e., valuable for education, interesting, etc.
5. Understand that Sugar is a Community Project supported by volunteers
6. Have an initial engagement with the Community
7. Want to help, or at least, Be There for Sugar
8. Become part of a Task/Team/Group or get a mentor
9. Successfully complete a task
10. Contribute ideas, take more responsibility, provide leadership, help others, etc.

Examples of contributing ideas, taking responsibility, and providing leadership include:

• Edit the wiki
• Pilot at a school
• Mentor a student
• Maintain an Activity
• Develop core software
• Create lesson plans and align with standards
• Create training materials and manuals
• Coordinate Sugar presence at conferences or running Sugar Camps
• Write press releases and articles about Sugar
• Write grant proposals

How to improve at each step

Become Aware of Sugar and Finding Sugar

Our Marketing Team is working on this with press releases, etc.

Try and successfully use Sugar

Our Development Team is working on this by making Sugar on a Stick more robust. We also need to keep working on installation instructions and different and every easier ways to get it working on different hardware platforms.