User:Hecker/GrantStrategy
This page contains planning materials for a proposed set of Mozilla Foundation programs collectively referred to under the umbrella term "Strategy 1". Strategy 1 planning takes existing Mozilla Foundation programs like Mozilla Accessibility and Mozilla Education and generalizes the approach to generate ideas and strategies for possible future programs to be undertaken in cooperation with other partners.
Executive summary
Each Strategy 1 program is designed to help solve a particular problem relevant to the Mozilla project, while at the same time helping to accomplish larger goals related to the overall Mozilla mission. Strategy 1 programs go beyond the strictly technological problems (e.g.,
those that are not strictly technological in nature, so cannot be
can be addressed by a combination of new technologies and new communities, both created in cooperation with partners (either organizations or other communities).
Goals
In general every potential Strategy 1 programs:
For example:
- The Mozilla Accessibility program was designed to make Firefox and other Mozilla applications more accessible to people with disabilities, while at the same time advancing the larger goal of promoting the creation of open source assistive technologies and integrating accessibility concerns into the everyday practices of people developing advanced web applications.
- The Mozilla Education program was designed to grow the community of people contributing to the Mozilla project and building on Mozilla technologies, while at the same time driving the teaching of open source technologies and practices in academia and helping to spark a new wave of participatory student-led learning.
Approach
In creating new Strategy 1 programs we need to leverage our strengths and work within our constraints. Our major strengths are in the areas of technology and community: To create new technologies within a community of practice, and then to work with others to build on and leverage those technologies to create new communities of practice.