Webmakers/Event Platform

	Event Platform Roadmap
	Owner: Michelle Thorne, Ben Simon	Updated: 2012-03-21
	We're building an online event platform to track, create, import, and sign up for Mozilla webmaker events.

Mockups

About this project

• The project in 5 sentences:
  • Events are a major participation and community engine of Mozilla's webmaker efforts.
  • We need a place to track webmaker events worldwide.
  • That enables users to learn about, create, import, sign up for, and leave feedback about events.
  • The site should allow for communication among organizers, participants, and staff.
  • And it should be dead-simple to use.

Uses Supported by v1.0

Find Event

• See on Front Page --> Click through --> Know what the event is from description --> RSVP (can message hosts) --> Share
• Search based on type/geography --> View results by Date/Distance --> Pick event --> Know what the event is from description --> RSVP (can msg hosts) --> Share

Desired additional feature: Search event based on keyword in description

Create Event

• Learn about event types --> Pick Type --> Fill in details --> Publish --> Recruit
  • Agenda design can either happen at "Learn about event types" stage or after "Publish"

Desired additional feature: duplicate past events & address all previous attendees of your events at once

Submit existing Event

• External event exists --> Provide us with url, event type, date/time, location, description, your email --> Event is published to our calendar

Report Back (participant)

• Receive email from Mozilla (or event host) --> Fill out feedback form & share on gallery --> Prompt to host/attend something else in future

Report back (organizer)

• Receive email from Mozilla --> Fill out feedback form & share on gallery --> Prompt to host/attend something else in future

Roadmap

Pre-launch: March

• Agenda maker (Michelle Thorne)
• Logistical How-To's (Laura Hilliger)
• Secure a domain (MT + Ross + BS)
  • Migrate to make.mozilla if/when possible
• /Events pages design + coding (Dev + Design + BS + MT)
  • Front page mockup. In HTML
  • Participate mockup. Map + calendar
  • Create Event mockup. Displays info about event types, recommended activities, examples
  • Resources mockup. How-to's
  • Design compatibility with Mozilla's larger calendar efforts (w/ Aakash)
• BSD Skinning/Integration (Dev + Design + BS + BSD)
  • Activate Event Module in BSD
  • Event creation user path
  • Event discovery user path
• Legal & privacy reviews (BS)
• Teams test event platform, agendas, and how tos.
  • Kitchen Table:
    • Call for staff, Aspiration, & high-level community members to try out with our sample agenda & curriculum and report back to us
  • HackJam:
    • Hackasaurus Jams Warsaw (March 8)
    • Popcorn Jam London (March 25)
    • Popcorn Jam Cannes (March 29)
  • PopUp: LA?, Pittsburgh?

Beta Testing: April

• External event submission form (Web Dev)
• /events design & coding cont. (Dev + Design + BS + MT)
• BSD cont. (Dev + Design + BS + BSD)
  • Localizations
  • Report back flow & copy
• Legal & privacy reviews cont. (BS)
• Testing cont.
  • Hack Jam
    • Popcorn Jam Berlin (April 22)
    • Popcorn Jam Lüneberg (April 29).
    • Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires (April 22)
  • Pop Up:
    • London/SF?

Launch 1.0 + Summer Campaign Announcement: May

• Summer Campaign Roadmap
• Prominent info about campaign.
• Display partners and planned events so far.
• Sign up page for campaign partners.
• Campaign "Create event" page for organizers.
• Event sign up pages for participants. "Participate"
• Photos from past events.
• Show campaign video

Day of Action: June

• Display lots & lots of event pins on a map of the world
• Display gallery of event pics and screenshots of hacks
• Prompt participants & organizers for feedback via BSD

Summer cont: July-August

• Display info about upcoming end-of-summer events
• Display info about feedback, what we made, what we learned, what next
• Migrate to make.mozilla.org/events if ready

Festival: September - November

• Roll over /events to focus primarily on the festival

Team

• Michelle Thorne, Mozilla. Berlin.
• Ben Simon, Mozilla. Bay Area
• Jess Klein, Mozilla. NYC.
• Laura Hilliger, Mozilla. Dresden
• Michelle Levesque, Mozilla. Bay Area
• Lainie Decoursy, Mozilla. NYC.
• Allen Gunn, Aspiration & Mozilla Senior Advisor