Contribute/Education/Notes/2013-12-13 Commmunity Builders Meetup

Raw notes: [1]

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Statement

The education/culture track will build an action plan around curricula, tools and programs both (1) to support staff in learning to work in the open and support volunteer contributors, and also what curriculum, tools and programs are needed (2) to support volunteers in becoming active/core contributors.

How to

Three axes were identified:

• Broaden: Assess and inform the status of Mozilla's diversity and levels of openness. Advise on actions to broaden participation in the project.
• Share: Promote "default open" by indexing and unifying resources with an emphasis on improving wiki.mozilla.org.
• Teach: Develop and incorporate existing curricula to on-board and mentor Mozillians through their contribution lifecycle.

Main Goals

Increase "default open" in the project

• To broaden: conduct a contributor census including attitudes towards openness and diversity
  • Measured by: sentiment towards openness and inclusion
• To share: index wiki.mozilla.org
  • Measured by: number of edits on the wiki
• To teach: publish and expand the on-boarding content.
  • Measured by: number of Mozillians who complete the on-boarding

Increase community building capacity in the project

• To broaden: repurpose the #millionmozillians and and community quilt projects to learn about the health of communities and commitments to the Million Mozillians goal.
  • Measured by: Quilt participation (number of tiles made).
• To share: Consistent comms and cadence on past accomplishments, biggest challenges (pain points), upcoming goals
  • Measured by: Establish communication cadence [X communications per quarter for the year]
• To teach: to develop and run a CB curriculum
  • Measured by: How many people completed the training

Sessions and workshops

Wednesday December 11th - SWOT + Priorities Setting [1 Hour]

Goal

TO SET

Assests identification and Mapping

• • reps, student ambassadors, mentors, interns
  • Mozilla lexicon
  • safari books, rosetta stone
  • red carpet, mofo "new hire" wiki
  • tribe, lead training
  • global mobility
  • web literacy standard, remixable teaching kits, teachtheweb mooc, webmaker, p2pu, appmaker, hive learning networks, popcorn
  • open badges
  • work.com, phonebook, intranet, mana, bugzilla, bug mentoring, mozillians.org
  • mdn, wikimo, mailinglists, irc
  • verbatim (l10n), github, sorce code repositories (svn, hg, bzr, mxr, etc.)
  • airmozila, capture mozillia, video archive, history of mozilla, onboarding video
  • mozilla.org
  • mozila summit, all hands, weekly project meeting, mozcamps
  • manifesto, code of conduct, cultural literacy, culture pulse, diversity council

SWOT Analysis

• Strengths

number of resources, diversity of projects, open & editable resources, evolution + iterative, care, teaching + learning, accessible for allmost all, each project has a leader/point person, priority, diversity of people, long history, localizing resources.

• Weaknesses

lack of focus, conflicting or out of date info, sprawling resources, redundancies, hard to identify leader, resisteance to retire things, lack of shared vision, hesitation to share (sometimes), hard to sustain intiatives

• Opportunities

distributed leadership, millian mozillians goal, desire to do more & better, to teach openess, platform ("mozillia") that many pay attention to, to tell mozillia's story, alumni network (de-boarding), mandate unifying across the org, reps + fsa, working with external partners, clear invitation to participate and contribute, default open, clear indication when something should *not* be shared

• Threats

privacy, trying to do too much, too many people coming on board, loss of Mozilla's culture, tunnel vision if too exclusive of org's goals, lack of metrics + clear definition, anti-open source attitudes, we have to rely on partners that are not open, hubris, missing people who aren't in spaces we're active in, credibility ep of mozilla as an educator, possibly seen as self-serving

First five priorities

1-Diversity of people (strength)

What

What do we mean by "diversity": diversity is a practice not a thing, skills, interests, hobbies, economic status, learning styles, country of orgin, language, etc. anything and everything that makes you you.

Why

For education: this is not just about teaching diversity, but raising awareness of our initatives/projects/resources through diversity to maintain innovation; and making sure the educational efforts of these initatives reaches all people.

How (assets)

Making our sources of knowledge accessible to everyone: localization, accesibility, time/place, etc. Support a mindset where every mozillian thinks about approach solutions in the most inclusive way. Add human part/full potential/not seeking permission/how you show up

Actions

• Identify what various communities mean by diversity and how they want to diversify their communities.
  • • Survey on diversity -
    • Using the Diversity Working Group and the DICE workshop
    • Note: Survey development/completion should not block smaller efforts to increase diversity.

Revised actions

• • Create a survey to identify: what diversity means across the org, asses current demographics, what areas of diversity needs improvement, identify barries to local leadership and community building
  • Using the Diversity Working Group and the DICE workshop
  • Note: Survey development/completion should not block smaller efforts to increase diversity.

Owners

Lukas (Dino co-lead/support)

Resources needed

• • Time and webdev assistance to help craft workshop tools
  • Proper survey consultation for creating pre & post workshop survey about diversity and visualize the data over time/cohort
  • localization of workshop materials