In 2016 Mozilla did a qualitative exploration project into the experiences andmotivations of community members from several different open source projects. The results have been crucial in understanding what we are doing well, not sowell and what others are doing better in open source engagement. The presentation will go through the identified motivations and experiences aswell as present the 4 persona's that were developed. The research will giveyou concrete understanding of how people engage with new open sourceopportunities and set examples for how to use the research in your owncommunity work.