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'''4. Can I apply to more than one?'''<br>
You can indicate any you’d like to be considered for. However, one aim of this initiative is to encourage more focus in how you are building participation in 2016.
'''5. Why we are having this program? Isn't the reps supposed to do so? Mentors are not considered as leaders too?'''
This program is fully integrated with Reps and Mentors who are certainly considered as leaders and should consider applying.
However, some Reps and Mentors are not as active and have particular plans for 2016 that prevent them from making a strong commitment to building participation. We need a set of people who are passionate and capable, and committed to building participation across Mozilla in 2016 specifically. The application is a way for mentors and reps to indicate their intentions for 2016.
In addition, Reps is not the only place where we have leaders in among volunteer Mozillians, which is why we're opening this up more broadly than Reps.
'''6. Is this going to replace the Reps program in the future?'''
This isn't a program so much as an initiative built around these global gatherings. While this initiative might continue in future years, it's not meant to be a replacement for ReMo.
'''7. There are known mozillians that they are leaders in certain functional groups such as l10n, SUMO, etc... what if these people decided not join this program? Does this going to affect their relation with the functional team? What if others applied to this, are they going to be the "Official" leaders and the others are not?'''
First, this is not the only way that people can take leadership in Mozilla. So this initiative doesn't prevent Mozillians from making great contributions or providing leadership. It's not a "governance" system of any kind.
Second, taking part in one of these gatherings will naturally result in building stronger relationships with other Mozillians, including staff. It will be our challenge to figure out how we make sure that relationship is not exclusive.
Third, this is only *one* way to be part of a cohort that will help grow the scale and impact of participation in 2016. As 2016 plans get created, we're certain there will be other opportunities available to more Mozillians and leaders.
'''8. How is the relation between these leaders and the local community is going to be? Each community has their own leaders now, why Mozilla now want to choose or "officially" identify these leaders not the communities themselves?'''
First, this isn't an official governance system or creating official leaders.
People part of this initiative are simple a subset of leaders in Mozilla who are committing to growing the impact of participation around Mozilla, and who have been selected to be invested in as part of this initiative in 2016.
This isn't meant to replace or infringe on any community leadership system already in place. In addition, there will be other initiatives rolled out in 2016 to invest in volunteer Mozillians and leadership.
'''9. Can the functional team nominate people even if they didn't apply to the program?'''
We're encouraging people to apply through this initiative and to have functional teams "Shoulder Tap" people to get them to apply: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Participation/Globalgatherings2015#The_Shoulder_Tap
But there is a process for functional teams to nominate contributors for the All Hands -- these nominations will be combined by the functional teams with the applications to come up with the final selections.
'''10. Why 150 people? How did that number get chosen?'''
This balances 3 things: 1) Budget, 2) Having enough people who we think can give good geographic and functional coverage across Mozilla, and whose efforts will have an impact in Mozilla, 3) Having a small enough number of people for which we can organizing strong support and coaching.
'''11. Do we have any fixed format of Recommendation letter?'''
This covers most of the details:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Participation/Globalgatherings2015#Recommendation_letter
"We want to hear about the impact you've had in Mozilla and on Mozillians, from the perspective of someone you've worked with in the organization."
"The filename should be “firstlast”. The formats can be .odt .html .txt .pdf .doc"
This is a good general resource.
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Letter-of-Recommendation
'''12. It is mentioned that filename should be “firstlast” for the letter of recommendation. So do we have to write our first name and last name ? Is it like that? or just "firstlast"?'''
The firstlast would be YourFirstNameYourLastName.
In Vaibhav's case the file name might be VaibhavBajaj.pdf.
'''13. If I'm selected, do I have to pay something related with the travel myself?'''
Mozilla covers travel, accommodation and main meals expenses during the event days for all the people selected.
