Webmaker/Get Involved

Contributors

WEBMAKER CONTRIBUTORS do three things: TEACH, BUILD and ORGANIZE.

This wiki page explains who our contributors are and what they do.

Super Mentors

Super Mentors are the backbone and leadership circle of the Webmaker community.

This section documents:

• the skills and experience that make a good Super Mentor (criteria)
• how one demonstrates they are a Super Mentor (evidence)
• the organizational and peer support to activate, train and celebrate Super Mentors

which was the result of a community consultation.

Skills and Evidence

1. Super Mentors are very knowledgeable and experienced in web literacy.

As evidenced by:

• A solid understanding of several Web Literacy competencies: https://webmaker.org/literacy
• Using Webmaker tools extensively.
• Familiar with other web literacy & digital making methods and tools.

2. Super Mentors are very knowledgeable and experienced in how people learn and strategies to teach skills to others.

As evidenced by:

• A solid understanding of key learning methods and concepts, including Connected Learning, Making as Learning and the educational value of the Open Web.
• Remixing or creating teaching kits to teach learners.
• Teaching other mentors how to teach web literacy.

3. Super Mentors are very active as community leaders.

As evidenced by:

• Organizing Webmaker events and helping others organize as well.
• Contributing notably to the strategy and core offerings of Webmaker through participation in testing, community calls, mailing lists and other channels and by working in the open.
• Recruiting, coaching and organizing mentors in their community.

Support and Commitments

• Training to empower Super Mentors to be better mentor and leaders.
  • Super Mentors get: increase in skills and support to participate at in-person trainings
  • Super Mentors do: run local trainings, events and other activities as well as learn to build the teaching kits and tools they need.

• Involvement in strategic decision-making.
  • Super Mentors get: early access and stakeholder consultations about key features of Webmaker and future plans.
  • Super Mentors do: constructively participate in these conversations

• Recognition and visibility.

  • UNRESOLVED Super Mentors get: featured profiles and extra ways to highlight their work

  • Super Mentors do: agree to be contacted by other mentors

• Ability to badge Webmaker Mentors.
  • Super Mentors get: access to issue Webmaker Mentor badges.
  • Super Mentors do: review badge applicants and responsibility for the quality of new mentors.

• Budget and swag to run local activities.
  • Super Mentors get: assistance in reviewing budget and additional resources that drive and recognize local mentors and activities
  • Super Mentors do: storytelling, accountability reports and sharing with the global community what they are doing.

Teaching

P1

• Teaching. Teach web literacy with our stuff. In classrooms, informal spaces and at events.

P2

• Assessment. Review and critique learners' and mentors' work (e.g., to review and issue Webmaker badges)
• Curation. Gather resources that help others learn and teach the web. Organize community-contributed content.
• Support. Help with documentation and Webmaker product support.
• Advocacy. Advance web literacy. Tell the story. Recruit more contributors.

METRICS

• # of people issued Webmaker mentor badges
• + other good ways to measure teaching?
  • Key design challenge: other ways to fully measure teaching
  • see notes and feedback from Management Team here

Building

P1

• Content. Create curriculum and content for Web Literacy Map. Teaching kits, activities and resources.
• Code. Submit patches to Webmaker tools. Experiment in new areas like Appmaker.
• Localization. Remix, translate and localize content and tools.

P2

• QA and User Testing. Ensure the quality and diversity of Webmaker offerings. Participate in live and asynchronous testing.
• MakeAPI. Integrate with and build on top of the MakeAPI.

METRICS

• # of content contributors. Users who tag items using web literacy map on webmaker.org.
• # of patch submitters. Users who submit a patch (not just file a bug) on Bugzilla or Git Hub.
• # of localizers. Users who make a significant contribution to localizing through Transifex.

Organizing

P1

• Events. Host an aligned event (for Maker Party or Hive) or session (MozFest, DML, etc.)
• Local networks. Grow existing Hive networks and establish new ones.

P2

• Campaigns. Participate in and partner with Maker Party. Organize local campaigns and outreach.
• Training. Train other trainers, teachers, organizers and mentors.
• Partnerships. 'Bulk recruiting' contributors via like minded orgs and networks.

METRICS

• # of event hosts on webmaker.org
  • Note: to be effective, this metric will rely on data coming in from broader networks, communities and partners

Supporters

• coming soon

Users

• coming soon

More detail

More detail on these Engagement Ladder ACTIONS, RESPONSES and INCENTIVES are in this spreadsheet.

Building a contribution dashboard

• MakerMind will gather this contribution data and output it to a dashboard

Target Audience

Who is our community?

• Teachers. Looking for creative and rigorous ways to teach tech, digital skills, and web literacy.
• Informal Educators. Hive members and Hive-like organizations.
• Mozillians. MozReps. And other techies who want to share their skills, but don't necessarily have teaching experience.
• Learners. The people those people are serving.

Our community members seek to:

• level up their web literacy
• build and share tools for teaching
• gain peers and networks of practice
• participate in coordinated actions
• identify with a movement that's globally leveraged and locally contextualized

Below is a graph of our “lead users”. These are the types of community members who are most invested in the project. The graph is merely illustrative, not exhaustive. Its purpose is to sample the motivations of our community members and visualize how those compare to one another.