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This page includes high-level and detailed plans and requirements for the Mozilla Foundation's 2015 key initiatives: Webmaker, Mentor Networks, and a new Leaders and Fellows initiative.

The Plan

This journey started 5 years ago in Barcelona, at Learning, Freedom & the Web. We’ve experimented and adapted
 along the way -- developing Webmaker, Hive, Maker Party, our fellows programs. But the challenge remains the same: to radically empower individuals with the skills they need to make the web.

Start here. The high-level 2015 plan.

In 2015, we'll continue to build on what we've achieved with Webmaker, Hive, Maker Party, our fellows programs over the past few years. Specifically we plan to:

  • Improve and grow -- our local mentor programs (Hive, Maker Party, etc).
  • Build up an engaged user base for Webmaker, both mobile and desktop.
  • Prototype a simple leadership development program, test w/ fellows and ReMo.

We'll also work on plans in 2015 to pull our existing initiatives -- plus other programs like MDN -- into a bigger Mozilla Learning or Mozilla University initiative.

Here are our planning :

1) Mentor Networks

PROGRAM

Focused on teachers and mentors. The ground game. Local organizing. Grow events, clubs and hives. Move and use the parts of the product that work -- uncouple the parts that don't. "teach.webmaker.org" as a global hub. Continue building curriculum and credentialing. Teach digital skills, web literacy, open ethos -- whether our tools or others'. Work with Engagement Team on "sales" into partnerships with access to lots of mentors and teachers. Keep events platform and badges platform. Give local clubs and hives their own web presence.

2) Webmaker Product

PRODUCT

Focused on learners and makers. Grow our base of engaged users. Lower barriers to participation. Emphasize mobile. Build community features that lead to more sustained involvement. Add online mentoring into the product. Work with Engagement Team to market to individual learners and the public. Experiment w. integrating Webmaker into Firefox and Firefox OS (aka "MakerFox.")

3) Leaders & Fellows

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Focused on leaders and fellows. Develop leaders to protect the open web. Build a long-term plan for a Mozilla leadership development program. Roll in great work from Fellowship programs -- Open News, Science Lab, Policy. Not all of it needs to fit here -- but find points of connection and wider theme / story. Lay the groundwork for Mozilla's global, community-based learning and leadership arm.

Supporting Documents

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