User:Dietrich/Scratchpad

(draft warning)

Overview

Description: Increase developer awareness and adoption of Mozilla products and the Open Web as a platform through a strong community-drivem technical speaker development program.

Status: Program design, pilot development

Contact

• Havi Hoffman

Core Team

• Dietrich Ayala
• Rosana Ardila
• Emma Irwin
• Soumya Deb

Mission & Purpose

Increase developer awareness and adoption of Mozilla products and the Open Web as a platform by:

• Growing a base of high-quality volunteer speakers...
• Supporting their efforts/goals with training, materials, mentor-ship, swag and travel funding...
• In order to present timely, relevant technical material at regional developer events.

Outcomes

• Up-level volunteer speakers with great materials and support to represent Mozilla at influential, top-tier events for developers and tech thought leaders and at relevant regional, educational, and community-run events.
• Training will generate accurate, up-to-date audio, video, code, presentation content for Content Kits, MDN, Hacks etc
• Graduates become mentors
• Speaker materials and assets are easily discovered and accessible (content and templates)

Themes

• Volunteers
• Speaking
• Regional
• Quality (interestingness, technical excellence)
• Topicality (technical relevance)
• Mentorship

KPI

• TBD

How It Works

How to participate

Pilot for now, more details on application and selection process in April.

Project Meta

Timeline

• Q1 February
  • Program design solidified
  • Program mission and goals socialized
  • Pilot design completed
  • Pilot participant list drawn up
• Q1 March
  • Program design published on wiki
  • Workflow with Reps, MDN decided
  • Pilot participants selected and communicated with
  • Achievement criteria defined and published
• Q2 April
  • Pilot is ongoing
  • Participants are working through the curriculum
  • Regular meetings for ongoing assessment
• Q2 May
  • Pilot concludes
  • Post-mortem to identify improvements and impact
  • Program refinements from pilot results are implemented and communicated
  • Communication readied for launch announcement
  • SIgnup form completed and ready for launch
• Q2 June
  • LAUNCH (TBD)

Pilot Program

• Description
  • Work with Mozilla Reps to select five participants
  • The selected participants help work out the kinks - refine criteria, identify mentorship needs
• Outcomes
  • Set of program refinements required to be implemented prior to official launch

Communication

• General
  • List: TBD
  • Channel: #devrel (for now)
  • Web: TBD

• Announcements
  • Lists: devrel, mdn, mozillians, reps
  • Hacks - blog post (Havi/Mar 30)
  • Social: TBD