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Participation at Mozilla

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.

Unleashing this impact and creativity is the work of the Participation Team.

We are guided by our Vision for participation in Mozilla in the next 3 years

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.

How to Participate

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

• Participation team in Discourse
• Follow-along or get involved in the Participation Team workflow.

The Team

• George Roter, Team Leader
• William Quiviger, Strategic Lead
• Brian King, Regional Community Health Lead
• Guillermo Movia, LATAM Community Manager
• Pierros Papadeas, Infrastructure Lead
• Anastasios Katsoulas, Infrastructure Developer
• John Giannelos, Infrastructure Developer
• Nikos Roussos, Infrastructure Developer
• Rosana Ardila, Reps Program Manager
• Rubén Martín, Reps Community Manager
• Konstantina Papadea, Reps Program Coordinator
• Emma Irwin, Education Lead
• Francisco Picolini Community Events Coordinator
• Lucy Harris Program Manager