Summit2010/Foundation/Ideas

The Foundation is considering running some of the following sessions at the Mozilla Summit 2010:

"Project Communication"

How do we communicate now? What sucks about it? How could we make it better?

Mechanisms covered: Bugzilla/Discussion Forums/IRC/Email/Intranet Forums/Weekly Update/...

Sample topics for discussion:

Are there any better ways to do the Discussion Groups?
What moderation options are there, if the alternative is people moving to more closed fora?
Do we need a "Mozilla Insiders" private forum?

Key people: justdave, dria, dmose

"Branch Management in Bugzilla"

(This seems to be a major remaining Bugzilla pain point.)

How should this work?
Is there any chance of getting there?

We could discuss whether a BzAPI-driven new UI is the solution (and if someone can build it), or whether changes need to be made to the Bugzilla core.

Key people: Christian Legnitto, beltzner, johnath, bmoss

"Things You Need To Know" lightning talk

A lightning talk giving a load of very short (one or two sentence) things you really should know about how to work with Mozilla. Probably a governance slant - at least for my ideas! But we could give it a MoFo slant generally. Suggestions from a minute's brainstorming:

When creating new tri-licensed files, please use the boilerplate from the MPL page rather than copy-pasting.
The MPL update is hoping to fix the boilerplate verbosity problem.
If you work for Mozilla, the Initial Developer of the Original Code is "the Mozilla Foundation" (and not "Mike Shaver" - shaverfacts.com)
If you want new discussion forums - file a bug; it's fairly quick and painless. Don't just set up a Google Group.
The new commit access policy makes it really easy for you to set up a user Hg repo at Level 1 and get your friends to collaborate with you.
The Firefox icon files are tri-licensed so official Firefox builds are fully free software.
You need let the licensing team know before importing third party code into the tree.

... suggestions?

Community Survey

A targetted community survey to find pain points has been on our radar since the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year we pencilled it into Q2 but I'm now thinking that perhaps it makes more sense to use the Summit as a great opportunity to collar people and interview them.

We'd need to have a discussion about the sort of questions we'd want to ask.

Is it worth trying to tie this into Summit feedback forms, and/or trying to get input from a significant proportion of attendees rather than a hand-picked 20 or 30? There are pros and cons to that...

Mozilla Web Universe

There are over a hundred web sites in the Mozilla community. How can we make sense of this for people? How can we work together to make a more coherent web universe that acts more like one huge site? Can we make cool stuff happening on one site discoverable from another site?

Agenda:

Present draft web universe map
Discuss role of a web universe task force
Discuss other topics people want to cover

Contribute/Participate Session(s)

It sounds like Mary is planning on doing a high-level session about participation and Alina will be doing an in-depth session specifically about the Get Involved process. David will help with both.

Growing the Mozilla Community with Drumbeat

Mozilla's mission is the keep the web open. Developers, testers and localizers have *built* technologies like Firefox to advance this cause. Mozilla is now encouraging everyday internet users to *apply* this technology to the same ends. This is the idea behind Drumbeat.

This interactive session invites you to contribute ideas that will grow the Mozilla Community through Drumbeat. In particular we want help with:

Designing cool, practical open web skills workshops for local Drumbeat events
Explaining projects like Universal Subtitle and Web Made Movies to developers
Building local community 'clubs' where people work on Drumbeat projects
Incenting and supporting people with good Drumbeat project ideas
In general: bringing teachers, lawyers, artists and other new blood into Mozilla

Your ideas from the session will feed directly into the evolving Drumbeat program. The session will also include an update and roadmap for Drumbeat.

What can Mozilla learn from other movements?

Mozilla has bold goals: build an organization with millions of active supporters that that will have relevance and impact for many decades to come. Others have built organizations like this before -- the Boy Scouts, the Sierra Club, the civil rights movement. And, still others -- 350.org and Free Movement Green -- are trying to do it today. Mozilla can learn from these organizations.

During this sessions, eight Mozillians will provide lightning talks on an organization they love and admire, pulling out lessons for Mozilla along the way. Mark Surman (or Chris Beard?) will also provide a brief introduction on the engagement and movement building opportunities that lay ahead for Mozilla.

Organized by: Mark Surman w/ Chris Beard, Mary Colvig, Jane Finette, Chelsea Novak

Format notes:

Presentations will be in 'speed geek' format -- lightning talks that happen at small, science-fair like stations. People listening for 5 minutes and then rotate between sessions. Allen Gunn will keep time.

This is imagined as a large, fun and informative session. It will feed into a smaller working session on 'Belonging to Mozilla: exploring supporter and membership models'.

We will do an open call for presentations to Mozillians and will then select the eight best presentations.

Ideal presentations are on orgs or movements that:

Have been around for a long time
Or, at least, have arte widely recognized as successful
Focused on practical action or services, not just policy
Are focused on a cause other than technology
Include specific, practical lessons for Mozilla

Proposals so far include:

Free Movement Green - Chelsea Novak
Gay Marriage - Melissa Shapiro
Boy Scouts - Mark Surman
[Beard, Mary, Jane - please suggest]

[one note - we need to avoid groups that are too divisive, gay marriage may be too hot for some people]

Other movements that would be great to cover:

Consumer cooperatives like REI
Fair trade, especially coffee
Civil rights in the US
Seatbelts and highway safety
The Red Cross

Belonging to Mozilla: exploring supporter and membership models

Non-Profits around the world use supporter or membership programs to engage people and further their missions. As we consider ways to increase engagement, an obvious question to ask is: what would a supporter program like this look like inside of Mozilla? What does it look like for people to 'belong'? What are they called? How do they participate? What benefits do they get?

This small working session will dig into these questions in two parts a) presentation on models used by existing membership organizations, fan clubs and consumer cooperatives and b) discussion of possible supporter or membership models for Mozilla.

Organized by: Mark Surman, Chris Beard, Mary Colvig, Bruno Magrani

Note: this session builds on some of the themes in 'What can Mozilla learn from other movements?'. It should definitely happen *after* that session.

Web Made Movies Lightning Talk

brett to write post here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Lightning_Talks

While the web has given the world an explosion of innovation, video on the web has been held back . We use language like “embedded” to describe the way we shoe-horn video into a stale, same crummy box with conversions and plugins. Video on the web is unaware of, and uninterested in, all of the other data and information on a page. Its video on the web, not video of the web.

We need to make video a first class citizen of the web, that behaves like the rest of the web: remixable, hackable, linkable, searchable. We need video that integrates Twitter feeds, Google maps, Wikipedia articles. We need a video environment where tomorrow’s filmmakers can “view source”. We need to let video catch up to the rest of the web and deliver on the potential of an interactive medium that celebrates participation over consumption. And the way towards this is to encourage an open practice of filmmaking that is as open, participatory and generative as the rest of the web. That’s why Web Made Movies is focusing on the development of an innovation lab bringing together filmmakers and software developers to explore how openness can have a fundamental impact on our definition of video.

We'll show our first efforts at creating HTML5 video pages, and the first episode of our documentary series featuring Jonathan Zittrain, Joi Ito, Keechang Kim (Open Web Korea), and of course Keyboard Cat.

Universal Subtitles Science Fair

Participatory Culture Foundation is working to make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate captions and subtitles for any video. We're building a free and open-source, all-javascript collaborative subtitling widget and a community website for anyone who wants to subtitle video. I'll be demonstrating our new tools!

i posted it here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Science_Fair

Drumbeat Brasil Lightning Talk

pedro and danielia to write post here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Lightning_Talks

Drumbeat Europe Lightning Talk

henrik to write post here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2010/Lightning_Talks

P2PU School of Web Craft - Working Session

Peer 2 Peer University and Mozilla Drumbeat are working together to develop the ultimate way to learn the craft of open and standards-based web development. This way is the P2PU School of Web Craft.

We're taking P2PU's model of peer run, free online courses and using this as the platform to teach skills from static HTML sites all the way to advanced social web applications. Courses focus on project based learning in a peer environment and are proposed, developed and led by web development practitioners – so the content is always up to date with the latest technologies.

Over the next 18 months we'll be working to fine-tune a curriculum of courses that give learners a pathway from being a novice web developer, to an advanced technical ninja with hacker skills. We'll also be developing a new way of assessing and recognising skills and knowledge which is focussed on project portfolios, hacker attitudes and developer challenges, rather than hours spent in front of a book followed by a meaningless exam.

This September we'll be launching our first full round of six week courses that range from Web Development 101 to Learning to Read Code (Better). We're inviting you to join our community as a course leader (proposals for September close Monday July 12!), web development expert and of course, as a course participant.

We want your feedback and course ideas! This session will provide an opportunity for you to learn about and provide input on the P2PU School of Web Craft approach. You'll also have a chance to propose and discuss specific course ideas -- you can even get involved in running a course yourself.

Lightning Talk

The P2PU School of Web Craft is a place for people to learn skills for the open web free of charge. Courses are project based and rely heavily on peer learning. We're working with Mozilla Drumbeat to give recognition for the learning that happens and ultimately help people land jobs. We're unique in that we're covering more than just the technology, we're helping build the "hacker s attitude" that is an essential differentiator in today's job market.

Running great Mozilla local events

NJ? AG? Let's discuss on call