Webmaker/Mentor/Roadmap

	Mentor Community 2013 Roadmap
	Owner: Chris Lawrence	Updated: 2013-02-5
	We believe that people learn best with others and that mentoring is a powerful, distributed way to connect learners with instructors

2013 Story

• Lay foundations with team, key partners, and network
• Launch an international campaign rallying around "Making as learning"
• Mobilize local communities and network them globally
• Build platforms and social APIs for people to gather and teach skills for a digital age
• Celebrate the community at MozFest and set the stage for 2014

2013 Goals for the Mentor Community

• 3.0 Grow a global community of mentors with a maker attitude
• 3.1 Offer compelling on-ramps for mentors to participate in webmaking
• 3.2 Merge Hive + Code Party to create a global mentor community w/ local roots
• 3.3 Make it easier to find local mentors, events, and learning resources online
• 3.4 Create more + better mentor resources: step by step guides for teaching that are hackable
• 3.5 Surface localization opportunities. Tools and starter content should all eventually be translatable for different communities.

What success looks like

• Webmaker.org/mentor is a destination for mentors. It includes community stories, remixable resources, events, and a marketplace for needs and offerings.
• Remixable hacktivity kits released. Mentors are regularly ripping, remixing, and reposting content to Webmaker.org.
• "Making as learning" narrative is widely known and has momentum
• Participation metrics for campaign(s) are hit
• Hive "Cookbook" used to grow & on-ramp new learning networks. 3+ new cities at a Hive Learning Network stage.
• An active webmaker mentoring program with ReMo
• 30+ campaign events as feeder events to MozFest
• A kick-ass Mozfest that wraps with clear community leaders who own part of Webmaker and are set for 2014

Who are we talking about?

We see the mentor community as the intersection of:

• Makers interested in learning
• Educators interested in making

For example:

• A hackerspace founder interested in running HTML courses
• A museum director interested in a digital making program

These two groups, makers and educators, are situated in two larger movements:

• the "Maker Movement": with a DIY ethos and an "If you can't open it, you don't own it" approach. A strong culture of documentation and sharing, collaboration and remixing. Has roots in physical spaces and physical objects, but important ties to the web. Examples include: Maker Faire, hackerspaces, tinkerers in electronics, 3D printing, CNC and more.
• the "Learning Movement": challenges traditional education with its learner-centric, web-inspired approach to learning. A strong culture of peer learning, open course materials, and new kinds of assessment. Has roots in peer production, participation, networks of institutions & learners. Examples include: Massive Open Online Courses, YOUMedia spaces, instructors from computer clubs and more.

Roadmap in detail

• UK roadmap: https://events.etherpad.mozilla.org/2013-roadmap-UK

Jan - Mar, 2013

Theme: Lay groundwork for year in team, key partners and network

Milestones

• Launch Hive Global
• Message Mentor & HIve Global into overall "Making as Learning" arc
• Launch webmaker.org/mentor
• Prototype Mentor marketplace
• Surface communities and individuals to serve as leaders and amplifiers
• Draft metrics for mentor participation
• Map year of known events and mentor labs / train the trainers
• Reboot Hacktivity kits
• Write up user stories
• Update pop-up how-to and other calls-to-action

Team Coordination

• Ship MozFest staffing plan
• Set Mentor Community Team infrastructure

Events & Activities

• Reps Training Days. March 1 - 6, Athens.
• Mozilla South Asia Community Meet-up. TBD. Kathmandu.
• Mozilla Community Building Work Week. March 26 - 28, Toronto.
• StoryCamp NYC
• Hive Learning Network Pop-Up at DML Conference in Chicago
• Writing/Making/Sharing Hackjam Mentorship Training
• Edu-Con: NWP + Mozilla on Web Literacies panel; Mozilla Tools Panel
• Hive Berlin Meet-up
• StoryCamp in Germany
• etmooc

What success looks like

• Involvement in 10 mentor community related events
• webmaker.org/mentor exisits
• Activity on #webmakermatch and #webmakerwin
• First meeting of Hive Global Stewardship group
• Shipped team, community meetings, and an open work plan
• Agreed mentor metrics and plan

Apr - Jun

Theme: Build narrative to rally community. Launch and disseminate guiding documentation

Milestones

• Ship first draft of Hive Global "Cook Book"
• Expand Hive Global to 6 cities total
• Publish MozFest 2013 plans
• Ship campaign plan & partnerships
• Launch ReMo Webmaker Mentor program
• Finalize Hacktivity kits + event guides, inc. plans for growth and remix
• Design a Mentor storytelling platform
• Pilot with event-driven fundraising around Hive events
• Develop TTT program plan
• Draft curriculum contest
• Scope "Github for Learning Stuff"

Team Coordination

• MozFest hiring plan in action

Events & Activities

• Mentor "Best of" Convening. TBD.
• Emoti-Con Youth Digital Making Festival. NYC.
• GenOpen hackjams. Global.
• Hive Screening at Tribeca Cinemas of Rip: A Remix Manifesto. April, NYC.

What success looks like

• Documentmention released for current and future Hive Learning Networks to use to grow & on-ramp
• Addition of Hive Athens and Toronto to Hive Global stewardship group
• Collaboratively designed MozFest 2013 plans
• Two MozFest contractors hired and working
• 10+ Hacktivity Kits released. Process for mentors to create, remix, and add their own
• ReMo Webmaker mentoring program began
• Theme, partners and plan released for Summer Campaign
• Begin counting mentors with nuance on how numbers were/are reached. Have sense of where we are by April 15th to set goals for campaign participation.
• Version 1.0 of Webmaker Mentor storytelling blog/site launched

Jul - Sep

Theme: Community in action or taking the Mentor Community out for a spin

Milestones

• Manage campaign(s)
• Campaign events feeding MozFest program
• Align Hive Global sites around a theme
• Work with new cities to on ramp towards joining Hive Global
• Ongoing Mentor TTTs

Events & Activities

• Code Party

What success looks like

• Hit participation metrics for campaign(s)
• 30+ campaign events as feeder events to MozFest
• 3+ new cities at a Hive Learning Network stage

Oct - Dec

Theme: MozFest MozFest MozFest

Milestones

• Curate best of campaign(s)
• Execute MozFest

Events & Activities

• Mozfest 2013

What success looks like

• A kick-ass Mozfest
• Wrap MozFest with clear community leaders who own part of Webmaker and are set for 2014
• "Making as learning" narrative is widely known and has momentum
• Mentors are regularly adding new content and projects to Webmaker.org

Additional context

We believe that people learn best with others and that mentoring is a powerful, distributed way to connect learners with instructors.

That's why the Mentor Community team will spend 2013 developing ways to link webmakers and mentors. The team will surface exemplary work from the community while also producing events, campaigns, hacktivity kits, tools and stories that help build a generation of Webmakers.