- What are the top three issues that you would want the Council to address were you to join the Council?
- Improve our website with new features and simplify process like for the reporting or metrics
I contributed to the site as developer and studied many tickets for the portal, and the same also for Mozillians.org, and in my personal opinion that valid resources have many problems in UX and feature that I want to change. During the RepsNext I written a report and few small changes as example happened later.
- Improve relationship with other Mozilla’s programs
One of the example is the collabration between Mozilla TechSpeakers and Reps, but Mozilla has many other programs like: Mozilla Open Leadership, Mozilla Campus Club, Mozilla Club and Mozilla Science and we need to join the forces because Mozilla is huge and we are part of this world.
Join the forces is very important and in the Italian example I saw that in our community helped in the past but also the Linux Day in Italy where there are over 70 events the same day in all the country in different cities with the participation of different communities (not only about Linux but about Open Source/Free Software).
- Accountabilities and Coaching
After RepxNext we saw the first effect, the new Review Team, the new onboarding process, the Reps Regional Coach experimental initiative, Reps Mobilizer initiative. They are example of accountibility and coaching and we need to improve them to improve the quality of the program.
There are too many reps but we need to motivate or move them to Alumni (to say thank you for what you done but is time to move on). Mozilla Reps program is not the next step after to be a mozillian vouched but a leader role for you community inside and outside and we need the best and motivate people. Probably that you are reading this, you are one of them!
2.Identify something that is currently not working well in the Mozilla Reps program and which you think could be easy to fix?
I already explained different things in the question above but I want repeat it. Reps Portal need to be more friendly for us but also for mozillians to find us, Relationship inside the Mozilla world because we are a big family and we don’t know the rest of the members of the family and Accountilities/Coaching.
3.What is in your view the Mozilla Reps program’s biggest strength and weakness?
Our diversity in different roles, knoweldge, experience and also of languages and cultures. At the same time is our weakness because is difficult to manage this huge amount of mozillians and be at the same time a cool team. The functional group with Review and Resources team show us that it is possible to id but we need to eolve and Reps path help us to understand what are the interestes of the reps.
4. What past achievement as a Rep or Mentor are you most proud of?
Regional Coaches helped us to finally do our first community video call in Febraury and start to organize our comunity in functional groups thanks to @edovio. After this I think that Edoardo now is a Reps with the new onboarding and in Italy we have finally 3 Reps (2 very highly active)!
I think that the most proud fact is that in May is the first time for Mozilla Italia to have 3 different events with 3 different volunteers sponsored by Mozilla Reps in 3 different cities for 3 different events with other italian communities. And for one of this volunteer is the first time of an event outside his local area without other mozilla volunteers.
5.What are the specific qualities and skills that you have that you think will help you be an effective Council member?
Coaching, I was thinking as developer that for me are boring psychologist stuff for marketing people. I was very wrong, now I have a talk and I am promoting this methodologies also to other communities and I saw the difference in my life but also in my communities on workflow and onboarding.
Motivation on changes It is time to move very quickly and to important changes for the actual Reps (not on onboarding) to motivate and inspire them but also to evolve our program in something where you can say: I am a proud Reps because I helped on change my community in better.
Experience Not only in communities life but also on planning, know people of other communities (outside Mozilla) and learn how they work, understand what are the problems using Agile methods or other solution to arrive a real and quickly goal. As you can see on my Mozillian profile I think to have a little bit of experience in Open Source but also in community life and needs.
6. As a Rep, what do you do to try to encourage inactive Mozillians to be active again?
The Firefox OS fall created problems also in my community where we lost 5 volunteers on 6 (it’s me the survivor) joined the community because of FIrefox OS but I know that there many others that I probably forgot.
The first step understand what are their motivation to left and see if it is possible to fix them or meet them in person. We are people and the human touch is important to show our appreciation for what they done it.
Also keep them updated about Mozilla and what we are doing, because probably there will be something that can be interisting.
This steps are what I am doing for my community because the first thing in Coaching is Leading by Example. How I can try to encourage others people to do the same thing without experimenting with myself with old friends?
7. Which of the three priority projects do you consider the most important? Please motivate your answer.
I can be repetitive but again: Reps Portal (our home), Relationship with other programs (we are representative of Mozilla so why not join our forces with the other initiatives?), Accountibility/Coaching (a representative guy without this 2 skills will be not a proud member of the program).
8. Which of the two big roles (specific skills based on the 3 priority projects) do you consider to describe you best? Please motivate your answer.
I think to be a motivator for my community but also a gather guy because alone as I done for years (also as rep) the results can be very poor. In the last year many things are changed for me in Mozilla that show that my skills are useful, my time is not lost, and I can do friends with Mozilla also with people that I never meet in real life for months.
Relationship with other programs is important and the Italian case with: Mozilla Club, Campus Club, Tech Speakers, Open Leadership show that together we can do it our best to promoting our mission of a free and open web. The next step for us is have someone in Mozilla Science and new developers to have a very big opportunities for new volunteers in their onboarding.
The last, but not for importance, is my fight against the pineapple pizza that as Italian is an horrible food!