Innovation/Projects/Mission-Driven Mozillians Strategy

What is the Mission-Driven Mozillians strategy program?

This program, driven by the Community Development Team (part of the Open Innovation Team), aims at driving forward the creation of a modern unified contributor experience for Mission-Driven Mozillians.

Mission-Driven Mozillians are a persona of contributors who:

• Regularly contribute to a number of activities in support of Mozilla’s mission
• Are highly invested in Mozilla as an organization and a mission
• Contribute in multiple areas (either sequentially or simultaneously)

While there are Mission Driven Mozillians in many areas of the project, the major areas of activity for this persona are: evangelizing, teaching, advocating, localizing, documenting, community building and doing testing.

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Goal

The goal of this project is to work with teams and communities to implement modern unified structures and processes to optimize the health and impact of Mission-Driven Mozillians communities.

This proposal is different to anything we have done in the past, we want to make a decision that will be incorporated in Mozilla’s 2018 strategy and that is a shared approach across the whole organization.

Background

This project is based on the Open Innovation strategy research project, and informed by the D&I community research, as well as additional interviews & research with key staff members and volunteers.

Additional background

This project was formerly known as "Non-coding Enthusiast communities and contributors".

Who’s Involved

The project is being driven by - Lucy Harris & Ruben Martin (with support from George Roter)

The decision-maker is - George Roter

Agreement is to be sought from - Katharina Borchert, Patrick Finch, Chris Beard, Mitchell Baker and the Reps Module Owner

Input & Consultation- Reps Council + Peers , Reps Community Managers, SUMO Community Managers + key volunteers, L10N Community Managers + key volunteers, Haiyya, D&I Staff, Mozilla Foundation Staff.

Approach

The approach is to generate two documents

1. A proposal that clearly outlines the impact of Mission-Driven Mozillians communities and proposes an a cohesive approach to investment to Mozilla Leadership
2. A strategy and roadmap for implementing structures and processes to optimize the health and impact of Mission-Driven Mozillians communities.

The proposal is generated by the input group and shared with decision makers for feedback.

The strategy is generated through a series of discussions with members of Mozilla communities.

Project Themes

Both proposal & strategy will be based around the following 7 project themes(*):

1. Group Identities: How do we create a process for recognizing groups, that emphasises inclusivity while allowing volunteers the freedom to create and manage structures that reflect their interests and identities?
2. Metrics: How can we increase our understanding of the impact and health of Mozillian communities?
3. Diversity & Inclusion: How do we create a set of processes, standards, and workflows that make Mozilla’s communities more inclusive?
4. Volunteer Leadership: How can shared agreements and approaches to volunteer leadership create healthier, more impactful communities?
5. Recognition: How can cohesive approaches to recognition create a more rewarding contribution experience for more people?
6. Resource Distribution: How do we create standards and systems that make resource distribution fair and consistent across the project?
7. Contributor Journey & Opportunity Matching: How do we connect more people to higher impact contribution opportunities? How can we make it easy to join the community?

(*)The project themes were updated from 10 to 7 in January 2018. To see how they evolved click here.

Project Status

1. Group Identities: Pilot Launched in India - Insights Gathering Phase..
2. Metrics: Being Scoped.
3. Diversity & Inclusion: Multiple projects in progress.
4. Volunteer Leadership: Final Shared Agreements for Volunteer Leadership are here. Implementation Pilot with L10N - In Progress.
5. Recognition: Not started - Blocked by metrics.
6. Resource Distribution: Underway - Insights Gathering Phase.
7. Contributor Journey & Opportunity Matching: Not started.

Stay Connected

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Helpful Posts:

• Mission Driven Mozillians 2018 Update
• Non-coding Volunteers, Mission-driven Mozillians, Community Coordinators & SUMO
• Mission Driven Mozillians Communities Proposal
• Mission Driven Mozillians - volunteer leadership proposal