AllHands/Workshops
Mozilla Contributor Badges
Goal: Share the cohesive vision for the united Mozilla badge system. (Including Mozilla-wide, team/product, and community-issued badges.) We'll explain visual design templates, system planning, and more around getting started.
Lead: Emily
SF locals: https://openbadges.etherpad.mozilla.org/all-hands-moco-friends
- Badges Brownbag (Monday afternoon)
- Badges overview + what's forthcoming. Lightning talk-style.
- What is BadgeKit - how can you use it?
- Collaboration between Webmaker and Badges + what other teams might expected
- Q & A
- Brainstorm: State of Mozilla badges (With MoCo colleagues; Wed 3pm)
- Invite: MoFo will be gathering in SF for a staff all hands next week, and we're looking forward to the chance to gather MoCo colleagues together in person to discuss the Mozilla badges project. We'd love your input as we look to expand the three part undertaking: Mozilla-wide badges; team/product badges; and community-issued badges. We'll discuss visual templates for teams, how to use BadgeKit issuing software, the potential for badge display on Mozilla properties, and ways badges can help support our goal of engaging 1 Million Mozillians. Please look out for invitations and join Wednesday session at 3 PM if your schedule allows.
- Invite: MoFo will be gathering in SF for a staff all hands next week, and we're looking forward to the chance to gather MoCo colleagues together in person to discuss the Mozilla badges project. We'd love your input as we look to expand the three part undertaking: Mozilla-wide badges; team/product badges; and community-issued badges. We'll discuss visual templates for teams, how to use BadgeKit issuing software, the potential for badge display on Mozilla properties, and ways badges can help support our goal of engaging 1 Million Mozillians. Please look out for invitations and join Wednesday session at 3 PM if your schedule allows.
- badges.mozilla.org Prototyping Party: (Wed afternoon)
- Let's prototype this site's future. What this site was and who used it, what it might become, and the larger vision and resources will needed. Plus how it might it fit with the larger plan for MoFo and MoCo badges. Less yack, more hack.
- Let's prototype this site's future. What this site was and who used it, what it might become, and the larger vision and resources will needed. Plus how it might it fit with the larger plan for MoFo and MoCo badges. Less yack, more hack.
What are our new communities programs and what are they up to?
Updates & Discussions about what's happening in OpenNews, OpenScience, and the new Open Web Fellows program.
Lead: Dan + Kaitlin, Dave
MoCo & MoFo Engagement Mixer (Tues night)
Get to know your colleagues! We'll gather people from across Creative, Engagement, Community, and Communications to meet each other f2f. Put a name to the e-mail thread and build working relationships for the future.
Lead: Erica Sackin
SF local contacts: John Slater, Mary Ellen, Erica Jostedt, Michaela/Winston, Mary Colvig (mat leave)
How to MoFo: tips and tricks for cross-team sprints
Goal: create more standardized work sprint process across MoFo. To work efficiently together, we need to be planning our sprints in a similar manner. Let's do RACI, meetings, planning etc with a common process so we're operating efficiently. Then we'll put some of this into practice for some of our existing sprints on the Webmaker wiki.
Lead: Matt
Collaborators: Simon, Cassie, Jbuck, Sunny, Michelle, Hannah, An Me
Time: 1/4 day
Device and browser compatability: what's the story?
Our front end web dev team needs a document that outlines our device support. Aki will lead a process to document fact-based decisions.
Lead: Aki
Collaborators: Adam (data on what we have), Wex (tools)
AngularJS: from WTF to FTW
Webmaker's front end team is beginning to make use of AngularJS for our apps. Thar be many dragons! We'll walk through one of how our apps is created as a way to learn this bitchin' MVC framework.
Lead: Kate
Whimsy for the win! How can we design more engaging & playful products?
Goal: Understand the basics behind playful design theory -- and how it can make our user experiences more engaging and irresistible. Great design and fun experiences are a key part of why people want to engage and build with us. In this session we will make hands-on prototypes for adding more whimsy across our products, community platforms and events.
Lead: Chloe, Cassie
Collaborators: Leah G, Luc, Kat, Michelle T., Erika D, David A
Media Trainings 
Goal: Uplevel skills of media spokespeople and bloggers/social media folks
Lead: Erica S, Sydney
Collaborators: Justin K from MoCo, Michaela and Winston from MoCo, Erika D, anyone who wants training on media and blogging/social media
Time Window: 3 1-2 hour sessions
Federal funding: dos and don'ts
Goal: Give people working on projects funded by federal funds the tools and info needed to properly manage those projects as per federal guidelines. (It will be fun, we promise!) Let's also share what we learned during the NSF site visit.
Lead: Ruzanna
To attend (required): Angela, Lindsey, Kari, Lynn (optional: Chris L., Ben M)
Length: 30 min
Manager Support Brownbag
Goal: provide (new) managers with insight and tools to effectively manage. Highlight policies and processes that managers need to know. Provide space for open discussion about needs, questions, worries, feedback
Lead: Angela
Collaborators: Angela King (MoCo HR) if this is on Thursday
Length: 1 hour
HR office hours
Ask a question, get more info, or give feedback on HR issues and policies, experiences.
Angela P is on call for the whole week. Angela King from MoCo HR is also available on Thursday. Plus there's an HR/Ops feedback session on Monday.
The can be one on one, or in a small group. During lunch, or other off-agenda time.
Strategic fundraising and resources check in
Goal: inform the short-term development strategy and produce the first quarterly insight report.
Lead: Lynn (+Angela)
Collaborators: Ben, Ruzanna
Deliverables:
* Get the content we need to make a waterfall chart
* Get the content we need to make the first quarterly insight report
Goal: Create web literacy pathways for our Discover prototype.
Deliverables: A web literacy pathway including a set of badges in the Discovery tool.
(this could also be applicable to mozilla badge pathways)
Lead: Chloe & Lucas
Collaborators: Doug, Laura, Mike L., An-Me, Ben, David A
Demos and Product Pitches 
Goal: Product managers and designers showing off their new pitches. Plus getting interested parties to help sharpen our product thinking.
Lead: David Ascher
Length: 1/4 day, parallel sessions for Webmaker.org, Appmaker, Tools
Things people want to demo:
Webmaker
- Webmaker.org/explore
- Webmaker Badges
- Webmaker Profile
- Webmaker Training
- Run a mini Webmaker training where staff playtest and teach using Webmaker's teaching kits & tools
- Lead: Michelle/Laura
- Collaborators: Fuzzy, Doug, Kat
- Web Literacy Mapper
- Webmaker Auth
- Appmaker
- Creating appmaker components in "Nimble" - our next generation code editor
- Studio MoFo (new) site & calendar
- Maker Party site
- Hive Directory/AWSM Finder
- Mozilla Discover (Pathways)
- Badgecub.me