Mofoallhands2012

FYI

This week overlaps with the Toronto International Film Festival so the city is going to be VERY busy.

AGENDA

Our daily schedule will begin each day with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the office (366 Adelaide West, Suite 500). Breakfast and lunch will be provided each day. There are a number of evening functions outlined as well. Please do not schedule any other meetings outside of the all-hands schedule.

Saturday Sept. 8

Ross is arriving early (3pm EST) so will be heading to a bar to drink/eat.

Please help make him look less of an English drunk by going along with him.

Bar has been picked - http://beeracademy.ca/contactus.aspx, aiming to be there from 5pm

Sunday Sept. 9

Join us at the Gladstone Melody Bar for a glass of prosecco and a hug or a high five from us from 6 p.m. onward. We will rally together for dinner around if anyone is interested!

Monday Sept. 10

• Opening circle.
  
• Webmaker Q4 2013 Thimble and Popcorn 'make something' session.
  
• Small group Webmaker discussion and Q+A sessions.
  
• Lunch, including speed geek prep.
  
• Post-lunch: speed geeking the Webmaker universe.
  
• Hands-on sessions with projects that you saw at the speed geek.
  
• Quick team huddles. Plan for the next few days.
  
• Closing circle.
  

Team Dinner
We'll host a team dinner tonight at Terroni on Adelaide at 6 p.m. [1]

Tuesday Sept. 11

• Opening circle.
  
• Working sessions in project teams.
  
• Cross-team design and planning, feedback sessions.
  
  • How can Thimble, Popcorn and Goggles start to speak the same language?(lead by Jess)
• Lunch.
  
• Participation and contribution hacking session.
  
• Webmaker roadmap review and check-in w/ a participation lens.
  
• Closing circle.
  

Party at the office.
Join us in the community space for a Mozilla Party (no code necessary). Put on your dancing shoes! We have a band, a bartender, snacks and fun!

Wednesday, Sept. 12

IMPORTANT: Wear your sharpest gear and make sure your hairs are did and your face is on - you're getting your picture taken at some point during the day (individual headshot AND group). We have hired a professional photographer to take headshots of our team for promotions (and your FB profile, of course).

• Photographer here to do headshots & group photo.
  

1. Opening circle.

TOP QUESTIONS

Audience and Vision (Mark and Ryan)

• What is the core mission statement or elevator pitch? What is the primary utility? How are we trying to differentiate ourselves?
• What is the target demographic? Who are we focusing on? Skill level, age, goals (e.g., If someone just wants to learn to code, do they belong at webmaker?) Where will the these users come from? New engagement or from other sites?
• Are the tools for learning and lightweight making or for consumer-grade production? Do we have to support both? CAN we support both?
• Are we trying to support people from novice to advanced? If so, how can we do that? How can we provide learning pathways for webmaking skills that are not covered by our tools?

Roadmap and Product Scope (Erin and Chris)

• What's in and what's out? What are we explicitly not doing? What are we de-prioritizing? What is webmaker not for (e.g., hosting, business solutions, advanced programming, etc.)?
• Where does mobile fit into this, if at all? Hackable games? Thimble.js? What do we want to pilot in 2013?
• Are we primarily building a self-directed and peer supported experience online or an experience meant for face to face events? How do the two things complement each other? How do we each into the other? Should we be prioritizing different features to support self-directed learning and peer-support?
• Metrics: What are our measures of success? What methods can we use to see how we're doing? What are we tracking now? What do we want to track?

Participation (Gunner and Chris)

• How do potential contributors or participants figure out where they fit into webmaker? What are the access points/on ramps? What is the value proposition? How do we incent, encourage, and reward them? What does the architecture of participation look like?
• How does this become a Big Tent? How are partners plugging in/extending webmaker?
• Localization, WTF? How much do we value localization? Where is it on the priority list?

Stuff We Ship Ops (David)

• What is our QA strategy for the products we are shipping for MozFest and beyond?
• Bug tracking, WTF?

2. MozFest: where it came from and where it's going. Work on your MozFest sessions.

MozFest Sessions

Core Webmaker Product (testing our thesis and products) (Erin)

• Playtesting / user testing of our stuff at MozFest (with youth) - Jess Klein
• Building Thimble projects and corellated badges (with instructors and developers) - Erin Knight
• Webmaker badges - Carla Casilli
• Explore a next version of Thimble that supports Javascript to teach basic game development, design and system thinking skills to youth - Chris McAvoy
• Building Popcorn Maker learning projects that people will really want to use (and build off of their interests). - Ben Moskowitz, Dave Humphrey
• Building Popcorn Projects for the Newsroom - One of the fellows
• Youth Storytelling with Popcorn: Play with a Popcorn project - Jacob Caggiano
• Webmaking for Mobile - David Ascher
• Distributed, community storytelling - Matt Thompson

Instructors and Teachers (building a way to engage and support this audience) - Mark [this is the instructor zone]

• Connecting and empowering grassroots instructors and teachers - Chris Lawrence
• Designing the next generation of events led by instructors & contributors. Summer Code Party 2013 planning. - Ben Simon
• Youth track --> London / NYC / Chicago - John Bevan
• Traditional curriculum hacking - Laura Hilliger

Juicy chaotic edge - Ryan

• Election Hacking: Comparing notes, thoughts, and code from US 2012 elections with newsroom developers. - Dan Sinker, Ben Simon
• Game Arcade / Exploration of a Universal Level Editor for Hackable Web Games - Chloe Varelidi
• Testing Open Badges by using OpenBadger to create and share new badges developed by MozFest attendees - Brian Brennan, Sunny Lee

3. Lunch.
4. Webmaker-wide working sessions.
5. Exercise: How do we use our last day?
6. Closing circle.

Open evening.
This is a free evening -- you're on your own for dinner and amusement. With TIFF in town, maybe you could try to get rush tickets to some film playing at TIFF.

Thursday, Sept. 13

• Opening circle.
  
• Working sessions in project teams.
  
• 15-month milestone mapping by project teams.
  
• Lunch
  
• Where to from here: 2012 priorities and 2013 vision.
  
• Small groups: Webmaker gut check and what I'm going to do next?
  
• What are next conversations and who owns them?
  
• Closing circle.
  

Dine around
Five groups of about 10 will venture out into the night for dinner. Then we'll all regroup at the Gladstone Melody Bar.

Friday, Sept. 14

No scheduled meetings, though many of your are still around. See you in 2 months at MozFest!

Hotels

Currently we have 25 rooms at the Gladstone Hotel [2] . We also have a handful of people at the Metropolitan Hotel [3] and a few people scattered around at a few airbnbs.

I've sent out an email letting you know where you're staying. If I missed you somehow or if you overlooked my email, please do get in touch.

ToMoFo

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