##Problem statement
We haven’t been able to provide resources for Reps interested in the work in specific areas of Mozilla or interested in community building and organizing. Our mentorship structure is mainly built around bureaucratic tasks. While we have fantastic mentors doing a great job we’re also not supporting them actively.
##Goal
Create a specialization track for Community Leadership, for Reps interested in community building and organizing, who are interested in growing their leadership skills and who want more support for building and organizing Mozilla communities around the world.
Reps specialized in Leadership are Reps that want to focus on community building and mobilizing as their main area of contribution. They focus on building and supporting local communities, inspiring and recruiting new Mozillians and mentoring future Reps.
##How to get involved
If you are interested in helping in this group, please fill out the following doodle with next week dates for an initial meeting:
Meeting Notes - Tuesday, February 16, 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
Attendees:
Irayani Queencyputri (Rara)
Daniele Scasciafratte
Bob Reyes
Mahay Alam Khan (mak)
Amine Zaafouri
Agenda and Notes:
Introduction - why are you interested in this working group?
For every Mozilla community, leadership is the main thing, no leadership will be no focus and direction in the community.
Have we missed any goals (other than described above)?
Need to document the leadership from other communities, so that other can follow. (for example community guidelines, focusing to the leadership)
Every community leader need to meet with other leaders from other communities so that they can exchange experience and improve their management skills especially if they are working in similar projects ( Privacy events / FSA events … )
Leaders have to encourage contributors to take initiatives and lead in some projects ( localisation / Coding … )
Have we missed important questions?
Define the bureaucratic tasks that can help the Reps to organize the event
Define the biggest communities that can help smaller communities (sort of bigger communities mentoring/shepherding smaller communities)
Ask communities to identify their needs and what specifics in leadership they need to draw out plans and set milestones for this working group.
How do different communities define “leadership” or the “leadership role”?
Let’s identify major milestones
Ask communities to identify their needs and what specifics in leadership they need to draw out plans
Simplify the blocking tasks
Documenting the leadership from other communities (create a community leadership guidelines)
Finding the challenges of various communities by asking the community leaders to share the challenges they encounter, including onboarding and recruiting new Mozillians
Find types of recognition that applied in other communities
Sending a Community Leadership survey very soon because we have to ask to every community and analyse that data to improve the leadership in that community
Define “leadership” or the “leadership role” within different communities
Let’s define a timeline for the major milestones
[until the end of next week] Sending a Community Leadership survey very soon because we have to ask to every community and analyse that data to improve the leadership in that community :
Ask communities to identify their needs and what specifics in leadership they need to draw out plans
Define “leadership” or the “leadership role” within different communities
Find types of recognition that applied in other communities
[until the end of next week] Finding the challenges of various communities by asking the community leaders to share the challenges they encounter, including onboarding and recruiting new Mozillians → open a Discourse topic
[blocked by the survey] Documenting the leadership from other communities (create a community leadership guidelines)
[until mid March] Define the bureaucratic/blocking tasks that can help the Reps to organize the event
Immediate next steps
[until the end of this week - All] Prepare a survey with all the information because we have to ask to every community and analyse that data to improve the leadership in that community → Rara will open a document to gather all the possible questions
[until the end of next week - All] Finalize survey questions in the google form format and send it through all communication channels (mailing lists, Reps call, telegram groups, discourse topic, github, etc)
[until the end of next week - Rara] Finding the challenges of various communities by asking the community leaders to share the challenges they encounter, including onboarding and recruiting new Mozillians → open a Discourse topic
[until the end of the week - Rara] Organize a follow up call in the same time next week Tue Feb 23rd - 16:00 UTC
we met today and had some great conversations about leadership. In a nutshell we decided that we want to both do a survey and facilitate a discourse discussions to understand better how Reps define leadership, what is needed in our communities and what skills do Reps need to help their communities.
We’ll aiming to have a draft of the survey and the discourse discussion for next week, we have owners for these tasks, but join us if you’re interested!