Webmaker/2015/Leaders

Vision

Mozilla Fellows and Leaders

• What we're building. Why. How it fits into the overall picture.

Goals

Evolve Fellows programs -- and build a leadership development offering

• Working with ReMo, roll out a Webmaker Leaders program.
• Scope and fundraise for Webmaker Fellows program based on Open News.
• Work with fellows / labs / ReMo to explore the idea of a larger scale community leadership model based on experiential learning within Mozilla.
• By Q3, discussion paper re: can and should we develop a Mozilla Community Leadership Institute based on our existing efforts in this space?

Before & After

• Before. Where do we stand now? (one paragraph)
• After. What this will look like in Dec 2015? (one paragraph)

Metrics

• to come

Key Initiatives

Target audience: high-potential creative coders / Mozilla contributors, plus funders

One of our key goals is creating leaders who are committed to teaching and building the future of the web. The reason is twofold: a) these people are *central* to delivering and improving the quality of our programs; and b) helping talented people understand Mozilla’s values and methods which then influence their lives and careers, shaping the approach companies, schools and organizations well beyond Mozilla. Mozilla already does a great deal to develop these leaders both within Webmaker and beyond. We build up and mentor regional leads through ReMo. We offer ‘experiential professional development’ via the Hives. We provide fellowships via Open News and Mozilla Advocacy. And, of course, we offer LEAD and TRIBE to Mozilla employees. All of these efforts are designed to help people understand our values, use our methods and become better leaders.

Getting better at this kind of leadership development is key to the success of Mozilla — it’s needed if we want to do ‘participation at scale’. With this in mind, we will run an experiment in Webmaker in 2015 aimed at a) taking the best from a variety of Mozilla leadership development efforts and b) building up stronger Webmaker leaders. This will include, in collaboration with ReMo, rolling out a Webmaker Leaders program. If funding can be secured, a Webmaker Fellows program will be designed based on the Open News model.

In parallel, we will explore whether there is value in developing a consistent collection of leadership development offerings for a wider network within and beyond Mozilla. This will include working with the fellows / labs / ReMo programs to look at common approaches and needs. By Q3, we will release an initial discussion paper re: can and should we Mozilla Community Leadership Institute based on our existing efforts in this space? If there is interest in the idea, this paper will be used to seek large scale outside funding for this initiative.

Milestones

• to come

Key Collaborations / Dependencies

• ReMo: (describe dependencies)

• Labs / Advocacy: (describe dependencies)

• Hive: (tie into Hive PD)

• Fundraising: (convene funders on this topic in 2015)

• Tie into Mozilla research?

Links

• helpful added context or documents