Wranglers

	MozFest Wrangler Program
	Owner: Tyler Munyua	Years Active: 2010-present	Updated: 2023-11-14
	Information about the Wrangler experience

About MozFest Wranglers & this Wiki

The Wrangler programme is our foundational anchor of the federated design strategy in practice. A small cohort of our community, called Wranglers, help us co-design and co curate MozFest. Wranglers are a large, diverse group of contributors who collaborate with a small group of Mozilla staff and others to produce a truly unique event. For more background, see this blog post on the Making of MozFest.

Wranglers are practitioners, activists, academics, and artists across geographies who collaborate to create an arc that ties together the festival narrative and festival themes (aka Spaces) to bring attention to pressing issues in the TAI space. They share an invitation to participate at the festival that convenes diverse communities through community-led sessions and hands-on experiences.

These wiki pages document and inform the Wrangler experience, gathering resources, materials, and work by Wrangler teams.

The Wrangling experience is divided into phases, as documented below.

PHASE 1 - Cohort-building and topic exploration

Missions in this phase:

• Meet other Wranglers
• Share and explore new ideas, perspectives and insights
• Begin to generate Space and Experience ideas, which are thematic groupings for topics at MozFest
• Agree on collaborative practices and approaches

Milestones:

• Successful program onboarding and co-design work begins
• Wranglers feel ready, comfortable, and excited to start the co-design process

PHASE 2 - Teams, Narratives & Community Engagement

Missions in this phase:

• Define and select MozFest Spaces and Experiences, and teams to produce those spaces
• Begin to engage communities around Space/Experience concepts & ideas
• Space/Experiences/themes brainstorming, defining the “big picture” for MozFest
• Discussion with Mozilla Staff

Milestones:

• Wranglers choose Space/Experience teams and define Space/Experience narratives
• Community engagement around Space/Experience narratives and themes starts and is ongoing

PHASE 3 - Outreach & Call for Proposals & Rolling Curation

Missions in this phase:

• Wranglers lead community-facing Space/Experience calls to share Space/Experience narratives and build momentum
• Begin outreach in community spaces and individual networks
• Open Call for Proposals with rolling curation

Milestones:

• Space/Experience narratives shared and Call for Proposals open
• Wranglers start curating
• Outreach efforts in community spaces result in diverse proposal submissions

PHASE 4 - Curation Continues

Missions in this phase:

• Close Call for Proposals and continue curation
• Continue Wrangler-led Community-facing Space/Experience calls as needed
• Storytelling and Space/Experience narratives continue to be shared with the community

Milestones:

• Wranglers curate sessions to accept to their Space/Experience
• Increased community engagement and co-design through Wrangler-led Community-facing Space/Experience calls

PHASE 5- December 2021-Early January 2022 - Confirmation & Scheduling

• Blog or 1st storytelling element due December 13
• Facilitators CONFIRM by January 3rd
• Wrangler-led Community-Facing Space Calls continue

PHASE 6- January & February 2022 - Storytelling, Facilitator Support, Community Engagement

• SCHEDULE RELEASE January 10
• Blog or 2nd storytelling element due January 17
• Blog or 3rd storytelling element due February 14
• Wrangler-led Community-Facing Space Calls continue

PHASE 7 March 2022 - FESTIVAL(s)

• MozFest from March 7, 4 days
• Possible "on the ground" event from March 28