Capture Mozilla

Short Description

The Viki Project uses video to capture and share knowledge (from know-how to cultural) across the Mozilla community.

Project Goals

The aim of the Viki Project is:

1. To generate brief interactive videos that give the know-how Mozillians need to to act quickly.
2. To collect existing and new video from the community that shares knowledge.
3. To use a self-serve model that gives Mozillians easy access to the knowledge that is relevent to them at whatever stage of contribution they engage in.
4. To make video fun, interactive and easy to share.

A note about its code name: Mozillians live in a world of wikis - a place where Mozillians share their work, engage and learn about what's going on in the Project. In keeping with the spirit of wikis, the working name for this project is Viki- a condensed version of Video Wikis.

Background and rationale

Using video as a means to capture and share knowledge is widely practiced in academic circles, work places and borderless social and political communities. When used effectively, video has the potential to make knowledge share immediate, efficient, social and creatively reusable. In order to use video effectively, some guiding rationales are helpful to hold in place. We use the three guiding C's of knowledge capture design:

• Capturing and harvesting knowledge must be relevant to the community's wants and needs.
• Connecting the captured and harvested knowledge must be done systemically.
• Communicating knowledge must exploit the learning capabilities of the video medium.

Current status and further work

Current Status: This project is in its beginning stages and is guided by Rational 1 above: Capturing and harvesting knowledge. In order to keep this process open, engaging and fun, we will pose over time a series of question to the community with the aim of maximizing community participation for sharing knowledge. These question will live on an easily findable and self-regulating etherpad. VikiQuestions

• Question 1: If you could watch a short video or series of videos that would help you as a Mozillian, what would it/they be about?

• Question 2: If you could make a short video or a series of videos that share some knowledge you have that you think the community could use, what would it/they be about?

Further Work: As the work reveals itself, further work will be determined. However, we do anticipate building out this project to include:

• Informing the design, functionalities and analytics of a knowledge bank and learning management system (LMS) in line with Rational 2: Connecting captured knowledge
• Integrating Popcorn functionality in line with Rational 3 above: Communicating knowledge
• Keep learning and having fun with Mozilla community in engaging ways, which is in line with... having fun!

Progress Reports

Quarterly Progress Reports will be provided that include brief summaries of:

• Growth and challenges
• Commendations and recommendations to be done with community input
• Acknowledgments of community engagement (shout outs!)

Team Profiles

Rodino (Dino) Anderson is a curriculum design expert with over 15 years working in diverse academic and not-for-profit communities. He has been a math and physics teacher, philosophy professor, teacher trainer, academic supervisor for cultural capital projects and a tennis coach. Dino has published and presented scholarly works on curriculum theory, philosophy of education and technology of education. His life mission and motivation is to continue working with communities that value co-creation as a core tenant to providing opportunities and access to cultural goods.

Dia Bondi is a communications and speaker coach, trainer and human enthusiast. She has over 12 years experience working with a range of organizations (Clinton Global Initiative, Rio Olympic 2016 Bid Committee and others). One of her dynamic talents is being able to translate and execute her craft for group and 1-on-1 coaching in any environment. As a trained speaking coach, Dia has a keen eye for keeping communication concise, powerful and action driven. Her ultimate goal in communications coaching is to keep the authentic voice of the presenter intact while challenging them to optimize their potentials-and all through playful engagement. She brings her love of improving the communications experience one voice at a time to the challenges of scaleable knowledge sharing and to the Viki project.