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	Education & Culture Working Group Page
	Owner: Education & Culture Working Group	Updated: 2014-03-19
	Vision: The Education and Culture working group seeks to help plan, develope and implement Mozilla-wide educational and cultural resources that support and grow our contributor community.

Roadmap!

Education A 2014 Roadmap

Community Building Contribute Main Page.

Guiding Principles

The guilding principles of the Education & Culture working group are as follows:

• Honor and support diversity.
• Teach openness as the default.
• Mandate unity.
• Support mentorship and learning.
• Encourage distributed leadership.

These guiding principles help us reach the goal of 1,000,000 Mozillians in ten years.

Group Process

• There are four subgroups in the Education & Culture working group
• Each subgroup has a driver
• Meet every other week
• Drivers will communicate throughout the two weeks and share out to the group at every meeting. Meetings will be used for collaborative sharing and input
• Each driver will set a series of goals from Q1-Q4 and accomplish them
• Drivers will delegate tasks to members of their subgroup
• Drivers could possibly change or rotate every quarter to involve main participants in every aspect of pathways

Education Subgroups and Goals Q1-Q4

Main goals for 2014:

• increase 'default open' across the project
• increase community building capacity

The following subgroups were identified. Each has a specific goal for 2014 and will soon have a defined roadmap to meet that goal.

• Unify communication touch-points:
  • Goal: Have a consistent format across projects for how contributors can participate/get in touch with project participants.
  • Purpose: There are many ways for contributors to get involved with specific teams and projects across Mozilla. Each team has different communication channels and different ways of documenting those communication channels. Once a contributor has learned how to communicate with one team, they may not be able to apply that knowledge to figure out how to communicate with another team they want to get involved with. Unifying the way we document how to get in touch with the many product and functional teams that have contribution opportunities will make it easy for potential contributors to engage with those opportunities.
  • Lead: Kadir
• Wiki Working Group
  • Goal: Drive improvements to and participation on wiki.mozilla.org.
  • Purpose: WikiMo is an important and widely used tool for documentating a wide range of topics across the Mozilla project. As with most knowledge repositories, wikis require cultivation to prosper. The WWG will address issues that affect the usability/adoption of the wiki such as spam, outdated theme, etc.
  • Lead: Christie
• Resource Index
  • Goal: Create an index of all educational resources across Mozilla.
  • Purpose: Mozilla has many, many resources for learning about and interacting with the project. Contributors spend an inordinate amount of time discovering needed resources and quite often don't find the resources they are looking for. Creating a single index of all resources will make important resources more discoverable.
  • Index should include an indicaiton of 'openness' on the resource.
  • Lead: TBD
• Publish and expand the on-boarding content
  • Goal: Make available the on-boarding content to all Mozillians.
  • Purpose: Making available the on-boarding content makes available useful information to paid and unpaid contributors alike.
  • Leads: Ally & Christie.
• Million Mozillians Campaign
  • Goal: Drive a grass-roots campaign to get local communities involved and showcased in 1MM.
  • Timeframe: Q3 or Q4
  • Lead: TBD
• Communication with local communities
  • Goal: Track and share what local communities are working on and where their pain points are.
  • Purpose: Local communites are the lifeblood of Mozilla. We seek not only to make more discoverable the accomplishments of local communities but also to identify where local communities are struggling and how we can help.
  • Lead: TBD
• Community Building Curriculum
  • Goal: Create a curriculum for commmunity buliding focused on local communities and volunteers.
  • Purpose: There is a great need among local communities and paid contributors alike to have a better understanding of the community building process and how it can be applied to a given team/situation. We seek to create a curriculum that is relevent and distributable to our global audience of contributors and that will help them build strong communities of practice.
  • Lead: TBD

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