Here's the Yammer thread for additional discussion: https://www.yammer.com/mozillians/#/Threads/show?threadId=399222275
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Matt Claypotch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I've been mulling over ways we can improve upon and evolve the venerable > Monday Mozilla Project Meeting for about a year now, and recently been in > discussions with Chris Beard, Mitchell Baker, and Mardi Douglass about how > we can adapt the current format of the meeting to the changing needs of > Mozilla. The following is a proposal for some changes we'd like to make. > > # Audience > > The Project Meeting will switch from a 100% public call to available for > all Mozillians. The goal is to have as lightweight a barrier to viewing and > participating in the meeting as possible. The official definition of the > intended audience is "individuals who are active in the project and/or have > a good faith interest in the mission". > > # Timing > > Right now the meeting is scheduled at 11:00am Mountain View time > (PST/PDT). This is simultaneously too late for much of Europe and too early > for Asia. We'd like to move the call to earlier on Monday (9:00 or 9:30am) > to better-accomodate Europe. The idea of rotating the timing of the meeting > was floated, but would likely result in it being impossible to schedule > around. > > There is additional discussion of which day of the week to hold it, with > Tuesday being the likely candidate to avoid constant preemption by Monday > holidays. > > # Format > > The goal is to merge the current public meeting content with the more > casual conversational format of the internal staff meeting. By merging > them, the Project Meeting would grow to 45 minutes from its current 30. > > 1) Friends of Mozilla - Thank-yous to contributions made to the project in > the last week. > 2) Standing Updates - Certain goal-oriented and mission-focused topics > will have an every-week update given. This is similar to the Product > Updates but reduced in scope. > 3) 3 Minute Speakers - This is the current Speakers section as it > currently stands, with a slightly higher focus on timeliness. The number of > speakers in a given week will be capped for time-reasons to 5. > 4) Q & A - This will start with answers to questions that have been > pre-submitted via our Moderator system, and will transition to open > questions collected from IRC and Vidyo. > > Currently calendar events are given a 'DJ read', this will be retired, > though the calendar will remain as a useful public resource. New > Hire/Intern/Community are undergoing a revamp as well, though this is far > less-defined. The goal is to move these intros out of this meeting into > another format (perhaps something akin to the Taiwan intros?) > > There are still several things to figure out before we fully roll-out this > new meeting format, and this thread as well as a Mozillans Yammer thread > are open for discussion. You can always reach out to me directly as well! > > The Project Meeting has become an unexpected and hugely special part of my > job at Mozilla, and I genuinely look forward to the discussion and > evolution of an excellent resource for the Mozilla Project. > > It's your meeting! > > ~potch > > > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
