Foundation:Planning

We are in the midst of a conversation about the future goals and programs of the Mozilla Foundation. This page is a dashboard.

Purpose: define the role and programs of Mozilla Foundation.
Status (January 4 2009): preparing detailed planning strawman documents in areas like education, research and movement building.
Share your ideas: comment on blog postings and newsgroup threads about Foundation 2010 goals. More options below.
Active experiments: MozCamp+, Hybrid Summit
Upcoming events: none scheduled at this time.

The Mozilla Foundation's Vision and Roadmap process is taking place in late 2008 and early 2009.

Purpose

Building on the Mozilla project-wide 2010 goals process, the Mozilla Foundation is undertaking a Vision and Roadmap development process. Its goals are:

Articulate Foundation role and identity within the broader Mozilla community (long term)
Define new programs that advance the Mozilla Foundation mission (medium term)
Catalyze community and get good ideas rolling along the way (starts now!)

This process is related specifically to activities undertaken directly by the Foundation. It does not replace or compete with the 2010 goals process. Rather, it will draw on 2010 goals and other inputs as a way to shape the future programs and focus of the Foundation.

Process

The Mozilla Foundation Vision and Roadmap will be developed by staff, board and community members between November 2008 and March 2009. The rough process looks like this:

We're assembling a strawman proposal for our vision and roadmap. We also want to try out ideas early: the Foundation will do or fund small experiments that help us learn and get good ideas rolling in relation to the themes listed below.

Strawmen and Scratchpads

In order to move fast and iterate, we will need to float ideas early and often. These links to strawman plans and scratchpad pages are meant to help:

Strawman slides overview of possible themes, plus look description of Foundation role. Presented in draft form to Mozilla Foundation board in December 2008.

Based on feedback on these slides, we're currently developing detailed strawmen and experiments in these areas:

Mozilla Education (program strawman)
Mozilla Research
Mozilla as Social Movement
Accessibility
Community Support (scratchpad)

All of these pages should be considered draft. They are intended as works in progress.

Share Your Ideas

The Mozilla Foundation Vision and Roadmap process is a conversation. Members of the Mozilla community are encouraged to share their ideas early and often.

At this stage, we're most interested in comments or involvement in the experiments listed below. Please comment on the relevant pages, or send mail to all -- @ -- mozillafoundation -- .org with ideas.

Over the coming months there will also be Air Mozilla sessions, face-to-face discussions and additional online discussions. The next round of feedback will focus on the Mozilla Foundation strawman vision document.

Experiments

Experiments, events and small projects are a part of the planning process. They give us a way to test and learn about ideas that might make it into Foundation programs. Experiments currently in play include:

Seneca Expansion / Virtual Seneca (online): Students anywhere can take advantage of the Seneca / Mozilla learning model, accessing projects, community support and mentoring.
Mozilla Community Courses (online): Ongoing series online courses run jointly by professors and Mozilla community members, providing opportunities for community building and learning on topics most important to Mozilla at any given moment.
MozCamp+ events. Develop a template for low-cost, low-effort local Mozilla events that include both community building (people already involved in Mozilla) and outreach (people who might want to engage with Mozilla).
Hybrid Summit First step in growing Mozilla's thought leadership on hybrid social enterprises and organizational sustainability.

If you have an idea you want to try out in relation themes we're exploring, let us know at all -- @ -- mozillafoundation -- .org. We be able to help you do it.

Events

Upcoming events:

none scheduled at this time

Past events:

Useful Blog Postings

Other useful references: