Participation
Participation at Mozilla
Who We Are
Our Mission
To have Mozilla succeed through openness and participation
Participation Team Principles
These are the principles that guide our actions. We chose a manifesto in order to capture the many complex elements of our participatory mission.
- Participation is when people can freely contribute their energies, time and ideas to support Mozilla’s mission
- In order to keep the web open and participatory it must be shaped by organizations, like Mozilla, who are equally open and participatory
- Participation is at the core of Mozilla’s history and identity and provides a key advantage for Mozilla as an organization
- Participation cannot exist without a culture of openness that allows contributors the opportunity to shape and build Mozilla’s programs and products at every level
- Participation must provide value for both Mozilla and Mozillians (participants)
The Team
Head of Core Contributors, Participation
- George Roter, Team Leader
Participation Partners
Global-Local Organizing
Developing Leaders
Participation Infrastructure
Team Performance and Learning
What We Do
2015 Strategy and Plans The 2015 Participation Strategic Plan guides our work for the year.
Quarterly Goals - 2015
Working in the open
The team is using an agile, scrum-like process called Heartbeats (modeled from the Mozilla Foundation team) to manage our week-to-week work. This involves 3-week Heartbeats, with a number of focused projects during each Heartbeat that link to the quarter goals.
Our workflow uses GitHub + Google Docs + Etherpads. Anyone can comment, follow-along or get involved — the workflow is here. We welcome feedback on the process and approach. Also, we have a section on Mozilla’s discourse, where anyone could create topics and collaborate.
You can also follow along with what we’re doing on the Blog and by following @MozParticipate on Twitter.
Current Quarter
You could find our current heartbeat work here. Until October 2nd
How To Participate
We always welcome participation in our work. We mark issues on Github with «Volunteer task» tag, so it’s clear where people can help and lead tasks. You could find those issues in this link.
If you'd like to get regular updates and discussions about Participation at Mozilla we have a section at Mozilla’s discourse that you can use as a mailing list as well as an online forum. In fact, once it’s set up you respond to threads by emails and it will be publish directly into the topic.
Directions for Using Discourse as a Mailing List:
- Register as a user on discourse
- Once you have a username go to your profile by clicking on the avatar, in the upper right corner of the screen
- Click on Preferences - You should see a section called «Email», where you could chose which notifications receive by email.
Once you’re set up you’ll be able to easily stay informed and join participation conversations directly from your email!