Participation
Participation at Mozilla
Who We Are
Our Mission
To have Mozilla succeed through openness and participation
Participation Team Principles
These are the principles that guide our actions. We chose a manifesto in order to capture the many complex elements of our participatory mission.
- Participation is when people can freely contribute their energies, time and ideas to support Mozilla’s mission
- In order to keep the web open and participatory it must be shaped by organizations, like Mozilla, who are equally open and participatory
- Participation is at the core of Mozilla’s history and identity and provides a key advantage for Mozilla as an organization
- Participation cannot exist without a culture of openness that allows contributors the opportunity to shape and build Mozilla’s programs and products at every level
- Participation must provide value for both Mozilla and Mozillians (participants)
The Team
Head of Core Contributors, Participation
- George Roter, Team Leader
Partners
Innovation
Reps & Regional Communities
Developing Leaders
Participation Systems
Campus Program
What We Do
2016 Strategy and Plans The 2016 Participation Strategic Plan guides our work for the year.
Quarterly Goals - 2016
Working in the open
The team is using an agile, scrum-like process called Heartbeats (modeled from the Mozilla Foundation team) to manage our week-to-week work. This involves 3-week Heartbeats, with a number of focused projects during each Heartbeat that link to the quarter goals.
Our workflow uses GitHub + Google Docs + Etherpads. Anyone can comment, follow-along or get involved — the workflow is here. We welcome feedback on the process and approach. Also, we have a section on Mozilla’s discourse, where anyone could create topics and collaborate.
You can also follow along with what we’re doing on the Blog and by following @MozParticipate on Twitter.
Current Quarter
You could find our current heartbeat work here.
How To Participate
We always welcome participation in our work. We mark issues on Github with «Volunteer task» tag, so it’s clear where people can help and lead tasks. You could find those issues in this link.
If you'd like to get regular updates and discussions about Participation at Mozilla we have a section at Mozilla’s discourse that you can use as a mailing list as well as an online forum. In fact, once it’s set up you respond to threads by emails and it will be publish directly into the topic.
Directions for Using Discourse as a Mailing List:
- Register as a user on discourse
- Once you have a username go to your profile by clicking on the avatar, in the upper right corner of the screen
- Click on Preferences - You should see a section called «Email», where you could chose which notifications receive by email.
Once you’re set up you’ll be able to easily stay informed and join participation conversations directly from your email!
Focus Areas for Participation
We are highlighting a number of areas of high impact participation and contribution around Mozilla right now. These are fresh and ready for your involvement!
These are focused on participation areas that: 1) Help us innovate, driving the leading edge of our work and thinking. 2) Extend our reach, by bringing Mozilla products, ideas and issues to more people, and bringing connecting more people with Mozilla.
We will highlight contribution opportunities that have well designed participant experience, and that have thought-through methods for bringing value to both Mozilla’s mission and to Mozillians. We will also highlight activities that help us learn about the future of participation at Mozilla.
Helping Mozilla Innovate
Dino Tank London - We want you to pitch problems that are worth solving at Mozilla! This opportunity closes on May 27th, but will be refreshed again in June/July.
Extending Mozilla's Reach
Open Comms: Making Encryption Mainstream - submit ideas on how to educate people around the world or in your community about the importance of encryption. This closes on June 3rd, but Open Comms will have many more opportunities coming soon.