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Participation at Mozilla

Welcome to the Participation team page. This page and the team sub-pages are just starting. New information is being updated daily. Thank you for your patience!

Who We Are

Mozilla is a global community with a shared mission. Our people – supporters, volunteers and staff -- are our biggest strategic advantage. They give us the leverage we need to compete and win against competitors with much more reach and money. Keeping our people engaged -- and finding modern, high impact ways to get them participating in our work -- is essential if we want to successfully confront the huge challenges that Mozilla and the web face today.

By 2017, we need to make a leap forward: Mozilla again needs to have an approach to participation that is massive and diverse, local and global. By then we want:

Many more people working on Mozilla activities in ways that make Mozilla more effective than we can imagine today.
An updated approach to how people around the world are helping to build, improve and promote our products and programs.
A steady flow of ideas and execution for programs, product whatever from around the world — new and diverse activities that move the mission forward in concrete ways.
Ways for people to participate in our mission directly through our products -- there is integration of participation into the *use* and *value proposition*.
Ultimately: more Mozilla activities than employees can track, let alone control.

If we can get to this point, we will be a different Mozilla -- an organization that is once again recognized as a leader in openness and participation and that is able to enrich lives and shape the web with a depth and scale that is bigger than ever. The Mozilla community will be having a massive positive impact on the web and on people’s lives.

What We Do

2015 Strategy and Plans
The 2015 Participation Strategic Plan guides our work for the year.

Quarterly Goals - 2015

Current: Participation Team Q2 Goals
Q1 Review

Working in the open

The team is using an agile, scrum-like process called Heartbeats (modeled from the Mozilla Foundation team) to manage our week-to-week work. This involves 3-week Heartbeats, with a number of focused projects during each Heartbeat that link to the Q2 goals.

Our workflow uses GitHub + Google Docs + Etherpads. Anyone can comment, follow-along or get involved — the workflow is here. We welcome feedback on the process and approach.

More About the Mozilla Community

Watch this space!

How to Participate

You can keep up with what we do, and participate, in the following channels:

Participation team in Discourse
More to come...

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 The [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NdR3ODkvBHBfv3V36uASBhvrY1dcA_D0h5QW6jGI8Wk/edit#heading=h.rpsjw8wfw2oz 2015 Participation Strategic Plan] guides our work for the year.
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-* {{font color|red|Current}}: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/104oW93mvtfLvI5ZKFeKsH9OEqdqyug8DJHDvGDgQnvE/edit Participation Team Q2 Goals]
+* <span style="color:red">Current</span>: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/104oW93mvtfLvI5ZKFeKsH9OEqdqyug8DJHDvGDgQnvE/edit Participation Team Q2 Goals]
 * [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CGAAPpYSgxSeA8y_PrulIgEjIti_ldwbC7yDMWaEd4Q/edit#slide=id.g594221f97_2_26 Q1 Review]
-'''Working in the open'''
+'''Working in the open'''<br />
 The team is using an agile, scrum-like process called Heartbeats (modeled from the Mozilla Foundation team) to manage our week-to-week work. This involves 3-week Heartbeats, with a number of focused projects during each Heartbeat that link to the Q2 goals.
-Our workflow uses GitHub + Google Docs + Etherpads. Anyone can comment, follow-along or get involved — [https://github.com/mozilla/participation-org/issues the workflow is here]. And we welcome feedback on the process and approach.
+Our workflow uses GitHub + Google Docs + Etherpads. Anyone can comment, follow-along or get involved — [https://github.com/mozilla/participation-org/issues the workflow is here]. We welcome feedback on the process and approach.
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