Learning/2015

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.

• Mozilla Learning 2015 Strategic Plan (document) https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/f/f6/Learning2015StrategicPlan-v0.5.pdf
• Mozilla Learning in context of overall Mozilla goals (slides) https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/6/69/MoFo_Staff_Meeting.pdf

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.

1) Mentor Networks

Focused on teachers and mentors. 2015 goal: Improve value to — and impact of — mentor network. Strategy: a) evolve Maker Party into a network of local clubs, b) grow more Hives.

• Hives https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Mentors
• Clubs https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Mentors/Clubs
  • Online plan https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/requirements
  • Curriculum plan https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Curriculum
  • Badges plan https://etherpad.mozilla.org/badges2015plan

2) Webmaker Product

PRODUCT

• Plan https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Product
• Presentation http://mzl.la/product_planning

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

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Leaders

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

• 2015 Mozilla-wide plan -- How this fits into the bigger Mozilla picture http://mzl.la/mozilla_2015
• 2015 Risks, Tensions and Questions https://etherpad.mozilla.org/learning2015
• 2015 Marketing Plan https://foundation.etherpad.mozilla.org/webmakermarketing2015
• 2015 Partner & Funder Analysis https://foundation.etherpad.mozilla.org/2015-pipeline-analysis
• 2015 Key Partners and Campaigns https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/2015/Partners