Mautic Initiatives

During MautiCon 2020, we announced how Initiatives are going to be structured in the Mautic Community - you can watch the announcement in the video here.

What is an initiative?

An initiative is a time-boxed, often complex project which is anticipated to take more than 6-12 months in duration.
It involves multiple stakeholders and may be related to the product, or other areas of the community.

What types of initiatives are there?

In the Mautic Community we have two types of initiative - Strategic Initiatives and Community Initiatives.

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives are maintained by the Project Lead

They are grounded in
- User insights - Initiatives that are based on what users of Mautic tell us is needed
- Product vision - Initiatives that move us closer toward our vision for Mautic being the #1 choice for marketers
- Market insights - Initiatives that are required for Mautic to remain competitive in the Marketing Automation world
- Community discussion - Initiatives which have been discussed and validated in the Mautic community

Current Strategic Initiatives

Improve the Installation and Upgrade Process

Objective

To improve the user experience when installing and upgrading Mautic

Mautic Marketplace

Objective

To provide a Mautic Marketplace within the application which allows the easy installation and maintenance of third-party plugins for Mautic

Resource Management

Objective

To improve the management and portability of resources in Mautic

Year of the Contributor Initiative

Objective

To improve the contributor experience for new and existing contributors to Mautic, so that we can make it easier for people to get involved and grow our contributor base, allowing us to go further, faster.

Community Initiatives

Community Initiatives are maintained by the Community Leadership Team.

Anybody can suggest a Community Initiative
- Check first in the Mautic Community Forums to see if someone else is already interested in or working on this area
- Add the discussion to the next team meeting agenda (choose the team that is most relevant
  for the initiative)
- If supported by the relevant team, share the initiative project brief and outline for feedback and refinement
- Once accepted, start to build a team and work on the project (in the public domain)