Summit2013/Sessions

What are Supporting Sessions?

Link to the general FAQ

Call for Facilitators

We need facilitators for the supporting sessions! Anyone can be a facilitator. Here is the list of sessions currently on the agenda for the Mozilla Summit 2013, with facilitators at each location. More information on expectations of facilitators can be found on the Session Facilitators wiki.

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. For more information about how to sign-up to host an open session, please see our FAQ.

How to Sign-up?

Please note that the deadline to sign-up has now passed. If you would like to help facilitate a session, please reach out directly to the named session facilitator.

Can I Co-facilitate?

In general, if you want to Co-facilitate a session, it is frequently possible, reach out to the track owner or to the facilitators themselves.

Who are the Track Owners?

[Track Owners] for the Summit Are:

Mike Hoye (irc: mhoye), People and Process Track, office hours: 2-3 PM Eastern (6-7 PM UTC)

[Lawrence Mandel] (irc: lmandel), Purpose and Strategy Track, office hours: Monday and Tuesday 11-12am Eastern Time.

[Larisa Shapiro] (irc: lshapiro), Product and Technology Track (and the Innovation Fair) office hours: M-W-F 9-10am Pacific Time

You can also reach us at:

IRC: #mozsummit

Vidyo (during office hours): Summit Track Owners room

Can't meet during the designated office hours? No problem. Just ping us and we'll set up an alternate time just for you. :)

Don't know who to reach out to? Here is a list of sessions as they align with the Tracks.

Deadline to Sign-up

Please note that the deadline to sign-up has now passed. If you would like to help facilitate a session, please reach out directly to the named session facilitator.

Any Questions?

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to reach out to a Track Owner or read through our FAQ.

Friday

Ecosystems in our Image

Day: Friday

Time: 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 201 A+B

Toronto: Conference C

Santa Clara: Santa Barbara

Track: Purpose and Strategy

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?

Facilitators:

Brussels: David Ascher, Bill Maggs

Toronto: Chris Lawrence, Ben Moskowitz

Santa Clara: Alina Mierlus, Erika Owens

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1ent7a9

The Web We Want

Day: Friday

Time: 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)

Location:

Brussels: The Arc

Toronto: Conference B

Santa Clara: Seattle

Track: Purpose and Strategy

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? User Control? Data ownership? 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, Tantek Çelik

Brussels: Larissa Co, Ozten, AlisonW

Toronto: Potch, Mike Collins, Dan Sinker

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/15nyhNz

Afterwards:

• I've proposed an IndieWeb Hackspace on the Summit2013 Experiences wiki page for those that want to actively hack on their own websites and create the web we want by example. - Tantek (talk)

Building a Web Literate World

Day: Friday

Time: 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 213/215

Toronto: Conference D&E

Santa Clara: Newport Beach

Track: Purpose and Strategy

The Webmaker Community is changing the face of education through collaborative, participatory events, kick ass tools and relevant learning activities for creativity and learning. At the same time, they're building a more Web Literate world by helping people understand that you don't have to be a programmer to understand the technical and social infrastructures of the Web.

In this session, we'll play games and discuss how building a web literate world is integral to everything we do, not just as Mozilla, but as people. We'll discuss how Mozilla is making this not only possible - but easily accessible through open tools, learning activities, invitations to participate in the discussions, guidance and direction and invention, innovation and inspiration. And we'll prototype ways for you to get involved.

Facilitators:

• Toronto: Julia Vallera, Emma Irwin
• Santa Clara, Sandraghassen Subbaraya Pillai, Ankit Gadgil, Vineel Reddy Pindi, Benny Chandra, Faye Tandog, Christos Bacharakis, Lawrence Kisuuki
• Brussels: Ibrahima SARR, Laura Hilliger

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZwqNo

What does "Mozillian" mean?

Day: Friday

Time: 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)

Location:

Brussels: Hall 300

Toronto: Willow Room Centre

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon CD

Track: Purpose and Strategy

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, Ioana Chiorean

Toronto: Guillermo Movia, Andrew (feer56)- Will do second session @2:45

Santa Clara: Sujith Reddy (would like co facilitator), Alex Lakatos

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/15nymAM

Firefox OS in 2014 and Beyond

Day: Friday

Time: 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 311+312

Toronto: Willow Room East

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon AB

Track: Product and Technology

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.

Facilitators:

Brussels: Chris Lee

Toronto: Peter Dolanjski, Vik Iya

Santa Clara: Sandip Kamat, Christian Heilmann

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zws7Y

Privacy, Security, and Data: Pragmatic Innovations for Users and the Web

Day: Friday

Time: 1-2:15, 2:45-4:00 (please note these sessions are run twice, therefore co-facilitation is recommended)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 211/212

Toronto: Conference G

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon E

Track: Product and Technology

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.

Facilitators:

Brussels: Stacy Martin / Garrett Robinson / Simon Bennetts

Toronto: Alex Fowler / Monica Chew / Yvan Boily

Santa Clara: Alina Hua / Sid Stamm / Joe Stevenson

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zwvki

Building through Brand

Day: Friday

Time: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 2:45 - 4:00pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 313/315

Toronto: Conference F

Santa Clara: Portland

Track: Purpose and Strategy

NEED DESCRIPTION

Facilitators (Pete Scanlon to coordinate):

Brussels: Ioana Chiorean, Gregory Jost

Toronto: Winston Bowden and Michaela Thayer

Santa Clara: Sakina Groth, Alex Lakatos

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZwzR0

Saturday

Practicing Open

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30-3:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 313/315

Toronto: Windsor West

Santa Clara: Prospector Suite B

Track: Purpose and Strategy

How can "working open" grow community and bring new contributors to our mission? When there's a conflict between openness and bushinesses requirements, how should we, as individuals, navigate that? What resources do we have available for guidance and help?

Facilitators:

Toronto: Lawrence Kissuki, David Humphrey, Matthew Thompson

Brussels: Ioana Chiorean

Santa Clara: Sakina Groth

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZwUmQ

Mozilla: Winning the Next Three Years

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30-3:30pm (yes, this one is longer, co-facilitators encouraged)

Location:

Brussels: Hall 300

Toronto: Conference B

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon AB

Track: Purpose and Strategy

What does Mozilla need to be doing right now, to move the web forward, to do right by our users, and what are the most important factors to consider in planning the next three years?

Facilitators:

Brussels: David Ascher

Toronto: Mark Surman, Armen Zambrano

Santa Clara: Brendan Eich

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZwWuP

Building a Framework to enable Mozilla to effectively communicate across our community

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30-3:30pm (yes, this one is longer, co-facilitators encouraged)

Location:

Brussels: The Arc

Toronto: Willow Room Centre

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon CD

Track: People and Process

How does Mozilla hold a discussion on a particular topic that allows expression of positives and negatives in a productive way? This session will build the Mozilla Framework for how to invite feedback, manage the conversation and ensure all parties are acknowledged regardless of their view of the issue.

Facilitators:

Brussels:Gervase Markham

Toronto: Lainie Decoursy, Andrew (feer56), Majken Connor

Santa Clara: Mardi Douglass, Emily Chardac, William Quiviger

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZwWeu

Defining and Packaging a Mozilla Core experience for onboarding

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30-3:30pm (yes, this one is longer)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 201 A+B

Toronto: Conference C

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon E

Track: People & Process

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?

Facilitators:

Brussels: Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] (one of the Mozilla Hispano mentors that runs the onboarding process for new contributors), Tobias Leingruber

Toronto: Amie Tyrrel, Amira Dhalla, Lainie DeCoursy

Santa Clara: Ankit Gadgil [co-facilitator welcome]

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zx1Pf

What would a million Mozillians do?

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30-3:30pm (yes, this is a longer session)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 311/312

Toronto: Conference D&E

Santa Clara: Seattle

Track: Purpose & Strategy

Working Narrative: A creative, "blue sky" session to imagine new kinds of contributors

Facilitators:

Brussels: Brian King (Community Manager for Europe), Henrik Mitsch, Netha Hussain, Michelle Thorne, William Duyck

Toronto: Marc Lesser, Margaret Schroeder

Santa Clara: David Boswell and William Quiviger

Session Etherpad:http://mzl.la/1enxmmc

Developing empathy for your users

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30-3:30 (yes, this one is longer)

Location:

Brussels: Studio 213/215

Toronto: Conference G

Santa Clara: Portland

Track: Product & Technology

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: Lindsay Kenzig, Maria Sandberg

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enxqlU

Understanding the Servo strategy

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30 - 3:30pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 211/212

Toronto: Willow Room East

Santa Clara: Newport Beach

Track: Product & Technology

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.

Facilitators:

Brussels: Josh Matthews

Toronto: Jack Moffitt

Santa Clara: Patrick Walton

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zx5yz

Growing Stakeholders in the Web

Day: Saturday

Time: 1:30 - 3:30pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 314/316

Toronto: Conference F

Santa Clara: Santa Barbara

Track: Product & Technology

The success of the internet depends on commercial activity as well as individual self-expression. To make that work means that we need to understand the perspectives of different stakeholders, from phone manufacturers, to phone companies, to media companies, to consumers.

Facilitators:

Brussels: Kat Braybrooke,

Toronto: Marc Lesser

Santa Clara: Geoffrey MacDougall, Need Co-Facilitator: Irina Sandu?

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enxPVs

Who are our users in 2018 and where are they?

Day: Saturday

Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 211/212

Toronto: Conference G

Santa Clara: Portland

Track: Product & Technology

Alternate title: What's not going to change in 2018? What motivations our users will still hold in 10-15 years?

The world is changing, and we need to build products that work for the next billion users. Who are they, and what are they like?

Facilitators:

Brussels: Yuan Wang, Mary Trombley

Toronto: Cori Schauer

Santa Clara: Jinghua Zhang

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enxKkH

Designing for our users not ourselves

Day: Saturday

Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm (yes, this one is longer)

Location:

Brussels: The Arc

Toronto: Willow Room East

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon CD

Track: Product & Technology

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 & Dominik?

Toronto: Cori & Bryan Clark (possibly Gregg Lind)

Santa Clara: Bill Selman

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enxtOr

Strategies of industry players and competing effectively

Day: Saturday

Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm

Location:

Brussels: Hall 300

Toronto: Willow Room Centre

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon AB

Track: Product & Technology

Powerful interests are creating silos of content and private walled gardens on the web. What can Mozilla do to open these silos up or create new more open alternatives? How do we need to understand how these competitors work for markets and consumers?

Facilitators:

Brussels: Patrick Finch [co-facilitator welcome]

Toronto: Kev Needham, John Jensen

Santa Clara: Irina Sandu, Ria Joy, Sandip Kamat

Session Etherpad:http://mzl.la/1enxOko

Understanding web developers

Day: Saturday

Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 213/215

Toronto: Conference D&E

Santa Clara: Santa Barbara

Track: Product & Technology

Web developers are a key community for Mozilla. Our competitors are building sophisticated developer tools, API's, and platform technologies. How can we maintain a close and symbiotic relationship with web developers? How do we meet their needs, and how do we get them signed up for Mozilla's mission?

Facilitators:

Brussels: Jeff Griffiths

Toronto: Stormy Peters

Santa Clara: Christian Heilmann

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enxVMI

The Petri Dish required by scaling innovation

Day: Saturday

Time: 4-6pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 311/312

Toronto: Conference C

Santa Clara: Seattle

Track: Product and Technology

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?

Facilitators:

Brussels: David Ascher

Toronto: Simon Wex

Santa Clara: Robert Richter

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enxJ00

WebMaker: Getting People to Take Back The Web

Day: Saturday

Time: 4-6 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 201 A+B

Toronto: Conference B

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon E

Track: Product and Technology

Webmaker is the brand that we're using to tell a new generation of web citizens that the web is theirs to grab, shape and remix. We'll show you what that looks like, and get you activated to help in that effort!

Facilitators:

Brussels: Kat Braybrooke, Michelle Thorne

Toronto: Chris Lawrence, Amira Dhalla, Lyre Calliope, Matt Thompson

Santa Clara: Brett Gaylor, Ankit Gadgil, Jacob Caggiano, Yoe One Ariestya Niovitta

Session Etherpad:http://mzl.la/1enxYYR

Sunday

Distributed Leadership and decision making

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Hall 300

Toronto: Willow Room Centre

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon CD

Track: Purpose and Strategy

A well-facilitated inquiry and skillshare on distributed leadership. Skills Learned: Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Facilitating distributed meetings/planning/group actions. Potential Outline of Session:

1. Nature of Mozilla -- one pillar is human capability; more mozillians moving the mission forward
2. history of the huge chunks of mozilla that people made up on on their own and we incorporated into the centralized piece
3. Some issues with distributed decision-mkaing: risk, mistakes, surprise, messiness
4. What do we do now: how we build more APIs to the centralized part of mozilla?

Facilitators:

Brussels: Laura Thomson, Ioana Chiorean

Toronto: Regnard Raquedan, Lukas Blakk

Santa Clara: Alina Mierlus, Vineel Reddy Pindi

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zxktf

Ideas into Action: Next steps for me and my team

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30

Location:

Brussels: Studio 310

Toronto: Conference F

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon E

Track: Purpose and Strategy

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

Facilitators:

Brussels: Karen Rudnitski

Toronto: Larissa Shapiro, Selena Deckelmann

Santa Clara: Ernest Chiang

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enyki5

Designing your project for participation

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: The Arc

Toronto: Willow Room East

Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon AB

Track: People and Process

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.

Facilitators:

Brussels: Laura Hilliger (working with Mozilla Reps to help them deliver #teachtheweb professional development 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), Jess Klein

Santa Clara: Benjamin Kerensa (One of the Mozilla Reps, delivering the community building workshop content) and Soumya Deb (Leader in Mozilla India)

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zxm4A

Community tools - what do we currently have

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 313/315

Toronto: Windsor West

Santa Clara: Portland

Track: People and Process

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, William Reynolds (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)

Toronto: Michael Hoye, Ricky Rosario (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)

Santa Clara: Pierros Papadeas (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enyrua

Working with corporate (closed) partners

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 311/312

Toronto: Conference C

Santa Clara: Santa Barbara

Track: People and Process

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:

• Toronto: Lawrence Mandel, Lukas Blakk, Bhavana Bajaj
• Brussels: Dietrich Ayala, Mark Côté, Chris Lee
• Santa Clara: Chris Peterson, Alex Keybl

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enywhl

Workshop on Contributor recognition guide

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 314/316

Toronto: Windsor East

Santa Clara: Seattle

Track: People and Process

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

Facilitator:

Brussels: Michelle Marovich (Lead Recruiter) and Lizz Noonan (Brand Campaign Coordinator/Creative Contribute Community Co-manager)

Toronto: Jeff Beatty (Community Building for l10n)

Santa Clara: Rosana Ardila (Community Builder for SUMO)

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZxsJo

Moderated discussion on how we will think about product opportunities in the cloud

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 210

Toronto: Conference D&E

Santa Clara: Prospector Suite A

Track: Product and Technology

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:

Brussels: Lloyd Hilaiel

Toronto: John Jensen

Santa Clara: Toby Elliott

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZxrFk

The future of web gaming

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 211/212

Toronto: Conference B

Santa Clara: Prospector Suite B

Track: Product and Technology

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. Find out where we are and join us thinking about where to go from here.

Facilitators:

Brussels: Vlad Vukicevic

Toronto: Martin Best

Santa Clara: Marco Mucci

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zxu3U

Imagining a Mozilla-Wide Open Badges System + OBI 101

Day: Sunday

Time: 1:15-2:30 pm

Location:

Brussels: Studio 213/215

Toronto: Conference G

Santa Clara: Ponderosa

Track: Product and Technology

Working Narrative: The Open Badges Infrastructure makes learning and credentialing work like the Web. Through digital badges, we can build an ecosystem of open learning with stackable, information-based credentials. Open Badges can be used for recognizing and communicating skills and achievements, building reputation and community, and finding peers and hires.

In this session, we'll provide a brief badges 101 and then explore the opportunity for Mozilla badges for the global community of Mozillians. Together we'll ask: What badges would compel contributors, staff and community members? What needs to be built and provided to support this large system? What are immediate steps for making these badges real and recognizable? Ultimately, is now the right time for a Mozilla-wide badging system?

Facilitators:

Brussels: Tim Riches, Emily Goligoski

Toronto: Meg Cole, Kerri Lemoie, Damian Ewens

Santa Clara: Sunny Lee, Carla Casilli

Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enyN3W