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→A Rep without basic information about some of our projects (even misspell names). What are your plans to improve this kind of situations?
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* '''Nikos''': Quick answer: Training. Mozilla project is so big that it's expected for some new Reps to miss knowledge about some areas. There is alreay a Training task force and we need to empower it even more. It's not necessary for a Rep to be expert on everything, but given the fact that a Rep is a person that engages with potential contributors she/he should have an overall view of all contribution opportunities. | * '''Nikos''': Quick answer: Training. Mozilla project is so big that it's expected for some new Reps to miss knowledge about some areas. There is alreay a Training task force and we need to empower it even more. It's not necessary for a Rep to be expert on everything, but given the fact that a Rep is a person that engages with potential contributors she/he should have an overall view of all contribution opportunities. | ||
* '''Sayak''': | * '''Sayak''': | ||
* '''Majda''': | * '''Majda''': First of all, I think a rep isn't suppose to know every single project happening inside Mozilla. Let's be honest, sometimes there are so many things happening that it's just hard to keep track of things (especially when projects change names as they evolve, which happens quite a lot at Mozilla). That said, if the said rep never heard of a major project (let's say, FirefoxOS), then I see only two ways to solve this: | ||
** we must make our interview process for approving reps more tight. I know one question that we (as mentors) are required to ask is if the person applying has that basic knowledge about Mozilla initiatives. But maybe there should be more emphasis on that part. | |||
** we should focus and spend more resources and energy on the training of reps to avoid these kind of situations. Training in the reps program is at its very beginning (with Rosetta Stone licences, Safari Books...), and it is my belief that this part should be emphasized and that we should be doing training & learning much more. | |||
* '''Gauthamraj''': This may be like , “ Be the King of one , than being the Jack of all “ . However , a Rep should have known at least few basic things about all projects in Mozilla that he/she can answer , if approached. What I can think of is , we’ll make a wiki with basic info about all the projects of Mozilla and add it to the joining Reps Program SOP and circulate the same with the existing reps as well . As a future plan , we can think about Reps Newsletter or sending important updates using ReMo bot while sending reminders for Monthly report . | * '''Gauthamraj''': This may be like , “ Be the King of one , than being the Jack of all “ . However , a Rep should have known at least few basic things about all projects in Mozilla that he/she can answer , if approached. What I can think of is , we’ll make a wiki with basic info about all the projects of Mozilla and add it to the joining Reps Program SOP and circulate the same with the existing reps as well . As a future plan , we can think about Reps Newsletter or sending important updates using ReMo bot while sending reminders for Monthly report . | ||
* '''Guillermo''': | * '''Guillermo''': | ||