Grow/Meeting 11 13 14

Meeting Details

• Time: Thursday, November 13 at 10:00 AM Pacific / 18:00 UTC
• Video: CBT vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369, conf 98645#. Use *1 to mute yourself when necessary.
• Room: Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco 3rd floor and Alien Nation in Mt. View 2nd floor
• Backchannel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Agenda

Please feel free to take notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/grow-mozilla-notes-10-30-14

• Introductions from new people

• Reminder: Submit for use in the contributor newsletter to Jennie: jhalperin at mozilla dot com

• The next Grow call is scheduled for US Thanksgiving so many of us won't be here. Should we cancel or would someone else like to host? (David)

• Working Group lightning updates (Jennie)

• Debrief of Feverbee SPRINT conference for community professionals (Madalina)
  • http://sprint.feverbee.com/
  • Lot of great content that is relevant for our work
  • For instance, Philippe Beaudette, Director of Community Wikipedia, presented about How To Motivate Legions of Volunteers

• Increasing support for regional communities in 2015 (David)
  • What are the needs of regional communities? How much overlap is there between regional and function community needs?
    • Pierros just got back from the Arabic Meetup in Istanbul where they discussed these questions
    • Please feel free to add ideas and suggestions to that etherpad
  • One thing that may be different is a need for financial support. Can the recent Indiegogo partnership help with that?
    • 2nd Indiegogo campaign now live for Corozal Web Training Camp in Belize. Please consider supporting and promoting
    • If you're interested in running a fundraising campaign, read this how to and let David know

• Draft conflict resolution guidelines (Lawrence)
  • Mozilla Uganda draft conflict resolution doc

• Learning resource directory (Christie)

• Preparing for Portland work week (David)
  • Draft schedule -- Everyone is welcome to join us on that Thursday and Friday
  • List of attendees
  • Ask for all of us: Think of an answer to ** Mitchell's question from MozFest (starts at 26 minutes in): What does radical participation look like today?
    • Staff as scaffolding as one answer to this question

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Action Items and Notes

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