The vision of this pilot run is two-fold, one is to recognize potential leaders & tech evangelists in our community in order to channelize their efforts for greater impact, and secondly - to improve coordination and community health of Bangalore. Our aim is to ensure there’s an active Mozilla community in Bangalore, and we hope such a program will be helpful in reaching that goal.
What do participants get?
- Access to mentors from the Mozilla community, who have vast experience in public speaking, leadership and open source projects.
- Opportunities to attend community gatherings
- An automatic vouch on your Mozillians profile for being selected to this program.
- Learning resources & assistance for organizing their own MozActivate initiatives
- And many more.
Expectations from participants
- Participate in community meetings (in-person or virtually)
- Reach-out to your assigned mentor & chart out a personal road-map
- Involve yourself in community building exercises
- And of-course, spread the word.
Expectations from mentors
- Devote 2-3 hours a week to review plans & mentor participants
- Attend a monthly Mozilla Bangalore call to share their experiences and show contribution pathways. First one is on December 17.
- Vouch deserving participants on Mozillians.org
- Assisting and guiding participants with event processes or budget (if required).
Code of conduct:
We follow Mozilla’s open and inclusive code of conduct. More details here.
Timelines:
4 month pilot run, which maybe extended depending on the participant & mentor interactions. December 2017 - March 2018.
We’re looking for mentors and potential participants, feel free to reach out to any of us from Mozilla Bangalore community for more information or nomination.
Cheers,
Abhiram
The participants of this mentorship program are handpicked from such workshops only, over the period of the last year. But yeah, we can totally take ownership of the monthly meet-ups in a round-robin fashion. Thanks for that!