MozCamps 2014

Overview

MozCamps are a critical part of our Grow Mozilla program, aiming to mentor and train core contributors to help us bring our products to market and bolster our efforts to recruit new contributors in region.

We are currently planning MozCamps for 2014. Watch the page for updates and information on how to get involved.

Planning

April 2014 Design Session

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Attendees:

Next Steps

Alpha Runs

• Webmaker Training
  • Location: Online
  • Date: May 12, 2014.
  • URL: http://training.webmakerprototypes.org/en/
• CTG WoMoz TechFest
  • Location: Bangladesh
  • Date: May 23rd, 2014.
  • URL: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/ctg-womoz-tech-fest/
  • Owner: Maliha Momtaz Islam
• National Seminar on Web Security Awareness
  • Location: Makassar, Indonesia
  • Date: May 24th, 2014.
  • Description: This event is held by Firefox Student Ambassador in PNUP Firefox Club. Goal of this seminar is to raise people awareness of web security, to give information and knowledge to attendee how to protect their privacy and treat their important data while surfing on the internet.

Beta Run

• Location: Bangalore/Mumbai, India
• Date: June 21-22, 2014
• Participants count: ~100

Potential structure

Potential structure for MozCamp India June 2014

Notes

(add notes for your group in the sections below)

Structure & Agenda

The Event Funnel: Understand Mozilla and why you're here --> identify and build a community --> get the skills to teach that community --> develop a plan to implement in the near future

STRUCTURE

• Weekend preferred for community, reps and volunteers
• 2.5 days
• Assign content wranglers for each track (Part 2+3) who manage people, time and funnel people through the learning experience

Day 1: Friday Afternoon (1-5pm)

• Part 1
• Welcome Reception (facilitate conversation for example: tell someone you don't know your Mozilla story, pick people from different countries)

Day 2: Saturday Full-Day (9-6pm)

• Part 2 and 3
• Team building (fun) activity at night

Day 3: Sunday Morning (9-3pm)

• Part 4

AGENDA

Part 1: Telling the story

Goal: Teach how to share the Mozilla mission & story and how you fit into it (organizational and personal storytelling)

• Whole team
• Mozilla mission & story/how to tell it your way (include privacy in content, its embedded across many aspects)
• Importance of community. Why we need contributors. Who are our current contributors and their stories
• Company update on goals and roadmap
• Relevant product updates
• Who's here and what everyone's roles are. Attempt to level the playing field to show we are all here to learn together (mozfest style)
• Set the tone of the event
  • Sprinting, collaborating and creating together (participatory). Show the Mozilla style of events and learning
• Emotional appeal, we're family, you're here to help us grow our family..
• Time for reflection & discussion at the end of the day.

Part 2: Community Building

Goal: Teach how to be a community builder

• Guidelines and Resources
• Management tips?
• Contribution areas (include localization specific contribution), include privacy lens (toolkits for people really interested in privacy to take to next functional areas)
• How do you grow a community, communicate and engage with them. RETENTION! how to communicate your actions back globally
• Going beyond just sending emails and actually working with communities to be effective
• How to motivate and avoid burnout
• Teaching how to communicate Part 1 and how to spread that emotional appeal
• Time for reflection & discussion at the end of the section.

Part 3: Training

Goal: Teach how to recruit, on-board and retain contributors (contribution pathway content)

• events toolkit
• tips on how to recruit & retain contributors - types of contributions
• Additional time to create new sessions/ask attendees what they want to hear/work on and let attendees help create the agenda.
• MDN
• Coding
• Webmaker
• Engagement
• Web compatibility
• Privacy
• QA
• User Research
• Time for reflection & discussion at the end of the section.

Part 4: Action Plan and Follow-up

Goal: Attendees leave with a plan on what to do next to implement a next Mozcamp

• Action plan on how to run future Mozcamps in the area
• Follow-up communications and pathways
• Hack time to develop an action plan (template - 30/60/90 days)
  • playtesting of action plan
• How to stablish a long term relationship
• Gather the documentation
• Do attendees have everything they need to run a similar event themselves?
• Have learners playtest / teach each other in small groups
• Time for reflection & discussion at the end of the section.
• Ideas:
  • A pledge wall (then maybe everyone picks a pledge someone else put up and reads it out loud)
  • Turn to your neighbor say one thing you learned, swap partners a few times or do in a few big groups

Etherpads

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• https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/mozcamp-assets
• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mozcamp14-day3-sessions