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Resources Track

Under construction
The Resources Track is under construction so the not all the decisions here have been implemented yet. We are currently working on providing a set of Training for people that want to join. If you have any questions ask them here or send email to the reps-council (reps-council[at]mozilla[dot]com).

What is the Resources Track?

The Resources Track is the track for Reps who wish to empower their communities (be it local/regional or functional) by enabling them request resources the Reps program has.

Reps that specialize in resources are trained to help communities and Reps plan strategically how they use these. This ensures that resources (budget and others) of the program are used in the most impactful way and according to the guidance provided by Mozilla’s strategy and the Council.

How can I join

In order to apply for this track, Reps would require:

• To run a special training (planning for impact, how to run events, activities etc)
• Organize at least one impactful zero-budget initiative.
• Have all of their previous bugzilla bugs closed.

The Rep would be then reviewed by the review team to approve his/her application.

A local cap could be defined by the Review Team to avoid having too many people in the same region be in charge of resources. If current members are not supporting or performing correctly they could be replaced by new ones or if we have a lot of interested people, they can be rotated. Ideally we should have at least two people per region in this track to avoid bottlenecks.

Once you join the track you won’t be able to request budget for more than $500 until you have at least run two successfully impactful initiatives under $500. This cap could be ignored for Reps with a great past record of impactful initiatives.

Expectation on number of people joining

The following estimation has been based on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/communities and where we have Reps. More details on the estimation can be found here.

• North America
  • we need 1 Rep
• Latin America
  • we need 12 Reps and 14 max
• Europe
  • we need 17 Reps and 18 max
• Asia
  • we need 25 Rep sand 30 max
• Africa
  • we need 5 Reps and 7 max
• Middle East
  • we need 2 Reps

In conclusion 60 Reps should join this track so we can ensure that Resources will be used and distributed correctly. 72 Reps are the maximum we can have based on the today’s estimation and needs of our communities.

Budget Training

Status 2016
We are currently working on providing impactful Training Resources for Reps that want to join the track. Those Resources will be ready by the end of 2016

• Every Rep that joins this track will have to do a budget training to complete the onboarding process.
• Training will take around 2 weeks, and will cover from how to present a solid plan and to define objectives to how to report receipts and request reimbursement.
• Reps will be able to present solid plans for impact, and it will be following a procedure to create a report after the event has happened.
• The training won’t be only to be accountable, it will also help to identify impactful events and to make sure Resources can be requested in a valuable amount of time due to the training the Reps had.

Review team

What is the Review Team

Review Team is a specialised team appointed by the Council with the goal to approve and support all Reps Budget Requests. You can find more about the Review Team here (https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/Review_Team) redirect link under Resources

Budget Allocation

In order to emphasize more on the initiatives that are priorities for Mozilla and in order to align with Participation goals the Council has decided to allocate its budget resources to areas that were identified as supporting Mozilla more right now.

For more details on Budget Allocation and implementation of this decision can be found here (Budget Allocation kid page).

Analytics

In an effort to constantly improve the Resources Track and to track both quantity and quality performance the Review team is conducting regularly quality surveys and analysis of the procedure time. You can find more about thosehere