AllHands/Workshops
Demos
Demos and Product Pitches
Goal: Product managers and designers showing off their new pitches. Plus getting interested parties to help sharpen our product thinking.
Lead: David Ascher
Length: 1/4 day, parallel sessions for Webmaker.org, Appmaker, Tools
Got something you want to demo? Please add it here:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/All-Hands-demos
Engagement
MoCo & MoFo Engagement Mixer
(Tues night)
Get to know your colleagues! We'll gather people from across Creative, Engagement, Community and Communications to meet each other face-to-face. Put a name to the e-mail thread and build working relationships for the future.
Lead: Erica Sackin
SF local contacts: John Slater, Mary Ellen, Erica Jostedt, Michaela/Winston, Mary Colvig (mat leave)
How to Tell Your Story
Goal: Uplevel everyone's skills on how to tell your story well.
Lead: Erica S, Matt Thompson, Erika Drushka
Collaborators:Anyone who wants to learn and discuss how to tell their story well.
Time Window: Tuesday Brown Bag Lunch
Media Training
Goal: Uplevel skills of media spokespeople and bloggers/social media folks
Lead: Erica S, Sydney
Collaborators: Justin K from MoCo, Michaela and Winston from MoCo, Erika D, anyone who wants training on media and blogging/social media
Time Window: Wednesday Brown Bag Lunch
Badges
Goal: Create web literacy pathways for our Discover prototype.
Deliverables: A web literacy pathway including a set of badges in the Discovery tool.
(this could also be applicable to mozilla badge pathways)
Lead: Chloe & Lucas
Collaborators: Doug, Laura, Mike L., An-Me, Ben, David A
New Communities
What are our new communities programs and what are they up to?
Updates and discussions about what's happening in OpenNews, OpenScience, and the new Open Web Fellows program.
Lead: Dan + Kaitlin, Dave
Systems
How to MoFo: tips and tricks for cross-team sprints
Goal: create more standardized work sprint process across MoFo. To work efficiently together, we need to be planning our sprints in a similar manner. Let's do RACI, meetings, planning etc with a common process so we're operating efficiently. Then we'll put some of this into practice for some of our existing sprints on the Webmaker wiki.
Lead: Matt
Collaborators: Simon, Cassie, Jbuck, Sunny, Michelle, Hannah, An Me
Time: 1/4 day
Federal funding: dos and don'ts
Goal: Give people working on projects funded by federal funds the tools and info needed to properly manage those projects as per federal guidelines. (It will be fun, we promise!) Let's also share what we learned during the NSF site visit.
Lead: Ruzanna
To attend (required): Angela, Lindsey, Kari, Lynn (optional: Chris L., Ben M)
Length: 30 min
Manager Support Brownbag
Goal: provide (new) managers with insight and tools to effectively manage. Highlight policies and processes that managers need to know. Provide space for open discussion about needs, questions, worries, feedback
Lead: Angela
Collaborators: Angela King (MoCo HR) if this is on Thursday
Length: 1 hour
HR office hours
Ask a question, get more info, or give feedback on HR issues and policies, experiences.
Angela P is on call for the whole week. Angela King from MoCo HR is also available on Thursday. Plus there's an HR/Ops feedback session on Monday.
The can be one on one, or in a small group. During lunch, or other off-agenda time.
Strategic fundraising and resources check in
Goal: inform the short-term development strategy and produce the first quarterly insight report.
Lead: Lynn (+Angela)
Collaborators: Ben, Ruzanna
Deliverables:
* Get the content we need to make a waterfall chart
* Get the content we need to make the first quarterly insight report
Design
Whimsy for the win! How can more engaging & playful products get us closer to 10k contributors?
Goal: Understand the basics behind playful design theory -- and how it can make our user experiences more engaging and irresistible. Great design and fun experiences are a key part of why people want to engage and build with us. We'll talk about the "why" and the "how" to ultimately get us thinking about how to level up design across our products and get us closer to our 10k goal. In this session we will make hands-on prototypes for adding more whimsy across our products, community platforms and events.
Lead: Chloe, Cassie
When:TBD
Where: TBD
Collaborators: Leah G, Luc, Kat, Michelle T., Erika D, David A
Agenda: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/whimsy-for-the-win
Device and browser compatability: what's the story?
Our front end web dev team needs a document that outlines our device support. Aki will lead a process to document fact-based decisions.
Lead: Aki
Collaborators: Adam (data on what we have), Wex (tools)
AngularJS: from WTF to FTW
Webmaker's front end team is beginning to make use of AngularJS for our apps. Thar be many dragons! We'll walk through one of how our apps is created as a way to learn this bitchin' MVC framework.
Lead: Kate
