Council Meeting Notes - 03-02-2016

Reps Council Meeting

Date: Wednesday, 3rd February 2016
Time: 15:30 UTC

Members Present in the Meeting

Michael, Christos, Faisal, RaRa, Umesh, Rosana, Ruben and Shahid (Chair)

Evolution of the Reps program

Council discussed about finalizing the RepsNext proposal. Working groups for the RepsNext proposal are set-up and actions and timelines are defined. All working groups are defined and have an owners. We are in process of finalizing their next steps and defining with a clear timeline.

Reps Innovation Fund

Council discussed about the Role of Reps to participate in connecting devices initiative.The Council will allocate a portion of the overall Reps budget for this Innovation Fund and will work closely with Mozilla’s Connected Devices team on the overall strategy and distribution of this fund. A small committee of volunteers and staff will review and approve community initiatives on a weekly basis. The innovation fund will run as an experiment for 3 months and then will be evaluated by the Council. The fund is not exclusive to Reps, all Mozillians are encouraged to participate and submit their ideas. Reps will ensure that Mozillians successfully submit their ideas and receive proper guidance throughout the process.More details about the Reps Innovation fund can be found at this wiki link: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Participation/Reps_Innovation_Fund

Meeting with Axel and Flod

A meeting was arranged with Axel and Flod during the Leadership Summit Singapore to discuss their planned l10n community meetups for 2016 and how to continue to improve partnership to organize these events. We discussed about this meeting and agreed to take this discussion to the next level to improve the partnership.

Meeting with the Board of Director Candidate

Council had a great opportunity to being a part of the onboarding process of the Board of Directors and interacted with the Board of Director candidate Dr. Karim Lakhani.Dr. Karim Lakhani is now a member of Board of Director of Mozilla Corporation. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership

For any further information or help, please don’t hesitate to contact us at reps-council@mozilla.com

Regards
Shahid Farooqui
On behalf of the Reps Council