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?

• More on our target audience and communities here

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