It’s clear that weekly meetings are not working for you. We need a place where we could have conversations and updates, a place where you could share things that you learned from the communities you were working with, a place where we could work together to help communities.
Telegram isn’t working neither. And we didn’t know if the problem are communication channels, or you are having problems in the work you are doing, or what is blocking you. We don’t want that this project to end being a filling reports thing, so we need to know what is happening.
So, here are some questions to help move this conversation:
@deimidis@nuke, Thanks for opening this thread and here we can easily communicate. I personally think that all efforts are being put forward to make this work. However, there is a slow reply from the communities which is the main blocker for us to provide feedback. However, I must say that they are very keen to participate but time factor is also another blocker. I also think if we want to get precise information from the communities, our previous queries and questions could be converted into a survey questionnaire which will be easier to maximize responses. This will help us to move to another step. Else, I think Reps Regional Coaches have enough guidance to do the necessary.
1- i was so busy the last month
2- i have what should help me thank you
3- share the exp with us
4- make it bi-weekly and contact everyone who cant join and ask why if he did it for no reason change him
Thanks @deimidis and @nukeador. In my case the blocker comes directly from the “experience” itself (ie: The coaches program).
Honestly I don’t know what to do with the communities, besides making the reports (which I already did).
In my opinion we should be more careful with this “experiences” and plan things better before involving people (or in any case open this initiatives).
About the 4 questiones:
What I said: I don’t know what’s expected/, what are the goals of the program, etc
Same answer.
I’d like to know more about each community situation, this is not something “I need” but more like something I’d like to see happening
I think communications isn’t the problem. Communication is the consequence of something, people will communicate if they have something to. But (and I’m talking just for me) if we don’t know the goals nor what to do next… What’s the point of talking? I’ve tried, for example, to share my experiences and no one (besides @nukeador and Daniele) seemed to be interested (not to complain, because I understand why this wouldn’t be interesting).
And also, I kinda agree with @qudahmahmood (even if it sounds “hard”) accountability is key, if someone that has committed to something isn’t working/involved (for any reasons, even if they just “don’t have the time”) kindly ask him/her to leave the position for other mozillian that might be interested (and with time)
Not sure if this helps, but hopefully I’ll earn the “Longest post on discourse” medal =D
nukeador
(Rubén Martín [❌ taking a break from Mozilla])
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Can you link them on the spreadsheet? I don’t see them for Region 2, we need to read that in order to have a action plan for the communities.
We’re in the process of sending out our initial email to the community. Our community introduction has been created via Discourse under North America. We are anticipating for our first meeting in 2 weeks. It’s been a little slower progress here in North America, but we are getting there.
I am not a regional coach so I prefer to reply to this points after gathering and chatting with mozillians about that role.
I know that is not clear the final purpose of this initiative so I want to leave what I think (it was also my idea when I was contacted to work on this initiative).
Coaching
Many of you already read the amazing book Tao of Coaching.
For the people didn’t that I suggest to get it because can change your way to approach on this initiative.
For all this initiative is to do the coach that is not a teacher but something like that:
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I know the graphs is not very understandable (extracted in my talk about coaching Coaching for Open Source Communities 2.0 look the last slides contain many useful resources).
When you coach someone you start from a point and define, like the swot, the problems and define what is the best approach to fix it (not in a developer way but as an human way).
You are now tracking the health of every community and all this information work to improve what Mozilla can do for them and also what you can do it for them.
An example of gathering information that I can do are the Mozilla Maker Party that are involved now in Europe (region 3) and they gathered our feedback as region at the European Gathering. This enabled them to improve the activities and define new way to organize that from the people of that region.
So coaching enable us also as volunteer and coach to find problems and suggest how to fix them.
I think that is not only this but also that they have the chance to get an help by Mozilla with this information, I don’t think that in the past someone asked to every community “How what’s going on?” and not “what’s going on?”.
Goals
They are not clear, my personal ideas that this initiative can became a branch of the Reps program with an active participation of the reps of the region with their regional coach that is not the mentor.
The Reps Mentor is like a teacher or manager that track what’s going on and the regional is a coach for all the people in the region that can maybe be a connector with all of them between all the programs in the region.
I know is a (my) big amazing ideas but I think that we can do it in a long term. There are many mozilla programs that need to be coordinated together and the regional coach can do that job.
For me the first goals is to have information of all the communities and define globally what are the main issues and also for regions.
I also think that the regional coaches goals can join the purpose of the many Mozilla communities gathering of the last and next months and help them.
So in few words in my opinion the goals is to be a super partes mentor (that is a coach not a mentor) that work regionally and help the community to improve their skills and be a bridge for all the countries of the regions with the rest of the mozilla world.
As I already said these are my opinion and ideas, for that reason I motivate you to participate on this discourse category (that is private!) and do the reports to help what will be this initiative.
Don’t forget, we are volunteers that works to help the communities to do their best
As a region 1 coach with Robby, my response is the same. And in addition, our long term goal is to have a North American MozCoffee/Gathering/Meetup (one of these).
