There are a lot of questions that do not fit into one of the other working groups or are too broad for them. With the work that is done in the other working groups, we have a lot of changes to bring the program forward. This also means that questions arise on how to deal with the changes.
Goal
The goal of this working group is to track and answer the broad questions we have around overall, program-wide topics (have a look at the questions below).
Key results (for now without timeline, let’s define this during our first meeting):
Have a clear plan on how we handle specializations (combining? choosing? process for joining specializations)
Have a clear plan on how we will encourage recognition
Possible Questions that need to be answered:
Should we specify a ratio for Reps responsibility?
Are Reps still going to be equal?
If there is a local Rep laking of one category, this might force the local community to be less efficient. How can we deal with that?
If I’m a local Rep and are in the Resource specialization, would I need to file budgets for other regions as well?
Can multiple specializations be combined?
Can a specialization be changed?
How are we dealing with the feeling that some specializations might have a bigger value in terms of “Recognition” than others?
Some categorizations might have bigger involvement from Mozilla teams and others, how do we balance that in terms of opportunities than every specialization has?
Will the specialization be based on what a Rep has done in the past or not? Should it just be the skillset the Rep has?
Will there be assignments or will everyone need to choose?
In the proposal, the last sentence of the 3rd specialization doesn’t make sense, we need to look at this!
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
We will be having our initial meeting today (Tuesday) at 3pm UTC. I set the final date on the
doodle, I hope you all got an email out of that. Sorry for the late notice.
Meeting Notes - Tuesday, February 16, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Attendees:
Michael Kohler
Daniele Scasciafratte
Rara
Agenda and Notes:
Introduction - why are you interested in this working group?
Program needs refresh, interested in helping out. Reps is an important role within Mozilla for community guidance towards MoCo
Goals of this working group (recap):
Specialization combination
Do we need ratio per specialization to fulfill our responsibilities?
How will the process look like once introduced, how do Reps get into the specialization?
How do we handle Recognition?
Coordinate overall questions that might come up in other working groups
Have we missed any goals?
Complete for now
Have we missed important questions?
What will be the role of mentors with recognition? They know the needs of their mentees
Let’s identify major milestones :
[until end of next week] Identify a plan on how to combine different specializations (this might change over the time with the work of the other groups)
[blocked by the combination] Definition of the process to join a specific specialization
[end of March] Figure out a plan on how to do recognition to avoid specialization to be the only recognition
Figure out the role of the reps portal in that
[end of March] Define a plan on how to handle countries with only one/no Rep → not covering all specializations
[end of March] Define a suggestion on how to find a specific Rep with a certain kind of specialization (also consider MoCo teams, outside of Reps)
Let’s define a timeline for the major milestones
Done above
Immediate next steps
(@Mte90 ; until the end of the week) Figure out where the role of the Reps portal is, how many resources there are for changes from the dev side → open a discourse topic
(@mkohler; until the end of the week) Figure out if there is any combination of specializations that doesn’t work → open a discourse topic
(@mkohler; until the end of the week) Organize follow up “status meeting” next week
I would like to have a short meeting to discuss our status. I think Tuesday, 15:00 UTC (same time as last week) is good.
You can find the agenda here in the meeting notes doc. Of course we will publish the notes here as well.
Speaking of documentation, we will use this discourse topic for general questions, and if needed we will start a new topic for a specific discussion here in Discourse. Once we achieve a final draft of a plan or idea, we document it on the github issue. Does this sound good? Is this transparent enough?
Pinging @Ioana@Mte90@rara@Christos for the second meeting. Of course anyone else is happily invited as well!