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Introduction to our users - who they are, what they do, what they need, and how Mozilla can do this. | Introduction to our users - who they are, what they do, what they need, and how Mozilla can do this. | ||
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:Cori Schauer will be main facilitator for this, and will coordinate the other facilitators. | :Cori Schauer will be main facilitator for this, and will coordinate the other facilitators. | ||
:Brussels: Gemma & Madhava Zhenshuo | :Brussels: Gemma & Madhava Zhenshuo | ||
Revision as of 14:34, 9 September 2013
Here is the list of sessions currently on the agenda for the Mozilla Summit 2013, with facilitators at each location.
Each proposed session has its own etherpad for discussion and description, if you click through to it. Please add to that pad if you want to suggest specific questions to be addressed within the session.
Also note there will be open sessions on site which can be signed up for when we are at the summit, "Unconference" style.
In general, if you want to co-facilitate a session, it is frequently possible, reach out to the track owner or to the facilitators themelves.
You can add yourself to a session until September 10, 2013. Please sign up!
Ecosystems in our Image
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
Put practically and short term: how our values show up in the app ecosystem or social network (where the users are now). And, in the long term, how do our values show up in big data, internet of things and other upcoming ecosystems. What would it look like to build a mobile apps and content ecosystem based literally on the ideas in the Nature of Mozilla? What features and marketing approaches would you include? How would we most effectively balance building, teaching and shaping markets? Where do local communities fit in as part of building this? Can they help build a long tail app ecosystem where we really see local diversity?
- Brussels: needs a facilitator or two
- Toronto: Chris Lawrence, Dan Sinker
- Santa Clara: Alina Mierlus, could use a co-facilitator
The Web We Want
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
A large, interactive session to explore the web we're championing.What do we mean by "the web"? Is it a technology? A set of values? (also, how is it different from the Internet?) What are the baseline design principles we value most? Privacy? Creativity? User freedom? Something else? How is the web part of our identity? How do we use our products and our voice to help the broader world--including users--understand the web and become champions with us?
Facilitators:
- Santa Clara: Asa Dotzler, Co-facilitator welcome
- Brussels: Larissa Co, Co-facilitator welcome
- Toronto: Potch, Co-facilitator welcome
Building a Web Literate World
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
Why the large majority of people on the web should understand how the web works and how are we going to empower them to make it. How we can teach the everyday internet users more skills to improve their online experience and understand how the web works.
Facilitators:
- Toronto: Marc Lesser, MOUSE, Julia Vallera, Lyre Calliope
- Santa Clara, Sandraghassen Subbaraya Pillai, Ankit Gadgil
- Brussels: Christos Bacharakis, Michael Köhler, Ibrahima SARR
What does "Mozillian" mean?
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
A hands-on session to define the identity of Mozillians, historically and as we evolve. Towards building scope and identity as a community. Consider new domains, like news and science. Do partners count? Who do we count? What are we trying to build? Who are we inviting?
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Gervase Markham, co-facilitator welcome
- Toronto: needs a facilitator or two
- Santa Clara: needs a facilitator or two
How FxOS could change the net in 10 years
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
-https://etherpad.mozilla.org/summit-sessions-friday-fxosin2014 The strategy and vision for what Firefox OS is trying to accomplish, what markets it's heading for, as well as showcasing the technology and features.
- Brussels: Chris Lee, co-facilitator welcome
- Toronto: Peter Dolanjski, co-facilitator welcome
- Santa Clara: Sandip Kamat, co-facilitator welcome
Privacy, Security, and Data: Pragmatic Innovations for Users and the Web
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
A discussion on how we combine our desire for excellent products, services and UX with leading privacy and security characteristics that advance trust, sustainability and safety for people.
Identity/Accounts Strategy
Friday, 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)
Firefox Accounts are coming -- what will they do for users, for Mozilla, for the web.
Building through Brand
Practicing Open
When there's a conflict between openness and businses requirements, how should we, as individuals, navigate that? What resources do we have available for guidance and help?
- Toronto: Emma Irwin, Lawrence Kissuki, David Humphrey
- Brussels: Stefania, IoanaChiorean, Gervase Markham
- Santa Clara:
Mozilla: Winning the Next Three Years
Winning through Product: Applying the Lessons of Firefox Today
Building a Framework to enable Mozilla to effectively communicate across our community
Defining and Packaging a Mozilla Core experience for onboarding
How do we create an experience that captures the history of Mozilla, our values, and what makes us unique in a way that we can transfer these items to new Mozillians and even our partners?
What would a million Mozillians do?
Saturday, 1:30-3:30pm (yes, this is a longer session)
Working Narrative: A creative, "blue sky" session to imagine new kinds of contributors
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Brian King (Community Manager for Europe)
- Toronto: Liz Henry (Community Builder for Automation team)
- Santa Clara: David Boswell (currently looking into pilot projects to create new functional and regional commuities, such as Mozilla Utah and Mozilla knitters)
Developing empathy for your users
Saturday, 1:30-3:30 (yes, this one is longer)
A workshop where you learn how to easily make sure that the products you make are as appreciated as you think they should be.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Larissa Co, Maureen Hanratty
- Toronto: Cori Schauer
- Santa Clara: Bill Selman
Designing for our users not ourselves
Saturday, 1:30-3:30 (yes, this one is longer)
Introduction to our users - who they are, what they do, what they need, and how Mozilla can do this.
Facilitators:
- Cori Schauer will be main facilitator for this, and will coordinate the other facilitators.
- Brussels: Gemma & Madhava Zhenshuo
- Toronto: Cori & Bryan Clark (possibly Gregg Lind)
- Santa Clara: Bill Selman & Lindsay Kenzig
Understanding the Servo strategy
Web browsers were designed around yesterday's reality of computer hardware. Servo is a rethinking of the architecture of browsers to accommodate the hardware of today and tomorrow: multiple CPU's and powerful GPU's, and with limited power consumption. What's more, Servo is being built in Rust, a new programming language designed to support faster and safer development practices.
The Petri Dish required by scaling innovation
If we're to have the kind of massive impact on the internet that we hope to, we have to ask ourselves whether our structure and processes will get us there. If we want to facilitate innovation at the edges and focus on recognizing good ideas rather than having them, how should we relate to web innovators around the world?
- Brussels: David Ascher
- Toronto: Simon Wex
- Santa Clara: Robert Richter
Distributed Leadership and decision making
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
A well-facilitated inquiry and skillshare on distributed leadership. Skills Learned: Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Facilitating distributed meetings/planning/group actions. Potential Outline of Session:
- Nature of Mozilla -- one pillar is human capability; more mozillians moving the mission forward
- history of the huge chunks of mozilla that people made up on on their own and we incorporated into the centralized piece
- Some issues with distributed decision-mkaing: risk, mistakes, surprise, messiness
- What do we do now: how we build more APIs to the centralized part of mozilla?
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Laura Thomson
- Toronto: Regnard Raquedan
- Santa Clara: Alina Mierlus
Ideas into Action: Next steps for me and my team
Four breakout sessions with a joint shareback round. Determine what winning looks like as measured by Mozilla's four pillars of activity. Tools, roadmap and things you can do when you return home. How you can adapt the 3-year plan to your local context and the projects you care about. How you can multiply the mission. Skills Learned: Metrics, Building Open into your Project, How to Identify the NoM in your ideas & highlight/promote/grow those
- Brussels: Karen Rudnitski
- Toronto:
- Santa Clara: Ernest Chiang
Decisions, discussions and debate
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
A structure for Mozilla to engage our community and reach decisions. Collaboratively building a framework that enables Mozilla to reach decisions in a distributed decentralized organization. This session will determine an agreed upon best practice framework for inviting discussion, acknowledging user input, and reaching a decision amidst a variety of feedback.
- Brussels: Gervase Markham, co-facilitator welcome
- Toronto: needs facilitator
- Santa Clara: needs facilitator
Designing your project for participation
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
Nearly all projects will benefit from community involvement; however, there are different approaches and best practices that can better enable a project for wider contributions. This session will capture best practices and challenges to build a project with community involvement.
- Brussels: Laura Hilliger or Michelle Thorne (working with Mozilla Reps to help them deliver the community building workshop content)
- Toronto: David Eaves (creator of the community building workshops that includes a 'Designing your project for participation' module) or Emma Irwin (One of the Mozilla Reps who will be delivering the community building workshop content)
- Santa Clara: Benjamin Kerensa (One of the Mozilla Reps who will be delivering the community building workshop content)
Community tools - what do we currently have
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
The topic of tooling seems to be a frequent one. Let's discuss the needs of the various members of the community and determine if there are shared tools in which we as a community should invest.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Josh Matthews (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)
- Toronto: Michael Hoye (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)
- Santa Clara: Pierros Papadeas (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)
Working with corporate (closed) partners
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
How to stay open at Mozilla while meeting our needs: Creating a shared understanding of how Mozilla can work in a closed environment and a roadmap for introducing open concepts to our partners.
Facilitators:
- Santa Clara need facilitator
- Brussels need facilitator
- Toronto need facilitator
Workshop on Contributor recognition guide
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
Workshop to share tips and tricks for how recognize contributors to your project that would cover badges, swag, events and more. Also hack on the draft Recognition Guide at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition
- Brussels: Janet Swisher (Community Builder for MDN)
- Toronto: Jeff Beatty (Community Building for l10n)
- Santa Clara: Rosana Ardila (Community Builder for SUMO)
The Web in the Mobile Age
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
What will it take to make the experience of the mobile Web better? How will we make apps and UI's more usable, to make payments smoother, to make the Web as compelling a platform in the mobile world as native apps?
- Toronto: needs a facilitator
- Brussels: Tony Santos
- Santa Clara: needs a facilitator
Moderated discussion on how we will think about product opportunities in the cloud
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
Mozilla has a proud history of championing user control of data, but there are both huge user benefits and competitive pressures to having some cloud-enabled data and services. How should Mozilla approach this problem in a way that pushes the mission forward while being pragmatic to the needs of the market?
Facilitators:
- Santa Clara: needs facilitator
- Toronto: needs facilitator
- Brussels: needs facilitator
The future of web gaming
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm.
The web is poised to become a platform for games, which opens up opportunities for new markets and independent developers. With WebGL, asm.js, and key web API's like Pointer Lock, audio, and video, Mozilla is making the future of web gaming a reality, and creating an open alternative to proprietary technologies like Google's NaCl and Chrome.
- Toronto: Martin Best
- Brussels: Vlad Vukicevic
- Santa Clara: Marco Mucci
Badges and how they can help rethink education
Sunday, 1:15-2:30 pm
Working Narrative: With OpenBadges, Mozilla has a combination of technology and market-shaping partners which could shift how people learn, get recognized for their skills, and level up in the game of life. Learn about the OpenBadges project and what it's shooting for.
- Brussels: Tim Riches, Emily Goligoski
- Toronto: Jess Klein, Meg Cole, Kerrie Lemoie
- Santa Clara: Sunny Lee, Carla Casilli