In the bottom there are all the references about the things mentioned.
What are the top three issues that you would want the Council to address were you to join the Council?
- RepsNext: continue the discussions and improve the proposal of the other minor WGs like Meta and involve new reps to join the discussions
- Regional Coaches: improve the actual initiative and evaluate the next steps with the help of the eyes as member of the council
- Portal: our reference to track our activities needs an improvement and as a proposal lead for the portal I want to speed up that process
What is in your view the Mozilla Reps program’s biggest strength and weakness?
- The mainly problem is the accountability: we have hundreds of reps that are not active for various reasons and the RepsNext worked in that direction to propose new rules and strategies for all of us, so it’s a working in progress.
- At the same time the most powerful part is the network of all the reps, as I saw in the Reps Regional Coaches that the community leadership or coaching shared with local communities was the natural next evolution step of the program itself. Also the friendship between us it’s an important fact that show how we can work together with our vision for the same purpose and also joke between us because we are a community not a corporation.
Identify something that is currently not working well in the Mozilla Reps program and which you think could be easy to fix?
I think that the portal is the next easy step for the program because there is already a proposal and will improve the accountability and the data itself on the portal. This step before the apply of the RepsNext proposals because we need to see how that improvements for the events and reporting can help us to improve the already available proposals with new data. But with an eye for the actual proposals to be ready to implement new features. Also as developer that contributed on reps portal I think that we need to simplify the contribution on the portal itself.
What past achievement as a Rep or Mentor are you most proud of?
The born of the Mozilla Italia Participation Team called MozItalians where me and @edovio (RAL and also a regional coach) work on help new volunteers to join the monthly activities and educate the most promising volunteers to evolve as level and participate in internal discussions of our projects.
The mainly problem for us is organize a national meetup but we need to study the reimburse for all of us, so we chosen that for the first meetup will be online with a full agenda about coaching, how to do a talk, how to introduce mozilla, how to organize an event and recruit tips that I’ve already shared on discourse.
What are the specific qualities and skills that you have that you think will help you be an effective Council member?
I think the approach of a problem that as developer I have. Find the problem and evaluate many way to resolve it but also the open mind to new ideas, like the reps regional coaches that was not a my idea but proposed to me from the council itself and now I feel that is like a my project.
Also the planning in long term I think that is very important because the idea is not enough but also the planning is very important to get the best effect on the project itself.
As a Rep, what do you do to try to encourage your inactive mozillians to be active again?
For the inactive, in Italy we use an approach of a first contact with few questions why he cannot be active, what he don’t like and if we as community did something wrong with him. In that way we search a contact, not like a boss that want their workers to get back to work, but listen what are his issues.
I think that we have to ask and gather what are the problems of the inactive mozillians to understand where we can act and change their status to a profit mozillian.
I written a protocol for recruit that can be used also for the inactive mozillians and that works in Italy so I think that with few changes can be used also worldwide.
Regional Coaches:
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing-reps-regional-coaches/9704
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/new-reps-regional-coaches-august-2016/10104
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/reps-regional-coach-group-we-need-your-feedback/9105
RepsNext:
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/working-group-meta/7051/
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/brainstorming-how-should-visibility-of-reps-activities-look-like/8618
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/meta-working-group-improve-the-reps-portal-for-recognition/7188
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/meta-working-group-combination-of-specializations/7250
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/reps-identity-comms-working-group/8174
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/working-group-community-leadership-track/7033
- Coordinating Meta and Leadership WGs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vOftCs8FKq0ZMwouwRNNnvizc5SZa_rBw5lASQ_4vY8/edit
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/working-group-alignment-with-participation-team-and-mozilla-organisation/7013
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/alignment-working-group-final-proposal/7588
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/meta-working-group-balance-involvement/7476
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/alignment-working-group-adapting-to-changes-during-the-quarter-semester/7389
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/meta-working-group-combination-of-specializations/7250
- Improvements for Reps Portal - * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rghXJw4ulgmvFlEnm75p84F5KdXYqKYkTIE2F_grYaw/edit
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