Thanks Kensie -- I wholeheartedly support the general idea of trying to bring some cohesion to the systems that still allow decentralized expression by volunteers of Mozilla in their local context. We can and should make it easier for people to create web presences and collaborative spaces where they can communicate with each other, publish, build software, advocate, etc.
Ideally this happens in a way that combines local customization and deep localization while neither requiring that everyone develop all of the skills needed to make world-class websites, and while providing coordination support so that activities in one location are effectively cut-off from activities elsewhere. Ideally this is also a system that makes it easy for there to be multi-way coordination between staff and volunteers, between locations, between people interested in a topic regardless of location or staff status. If this is the kind of thing you're talking about, I'm 100% in support, and I think the scope is broader than just technical website support. I suggest we separate the skills training benefits from the service definition and delivery models. The "what" of the service should be determined by a crisp analysis of what community activities make sense to encourage & facilitate -- it could be websites, it could be other things -- and the skills needed to implement those could range from design frameworks to security auditing, ops or even social media management and marketing. Regardless, I'm sure there will be opportunities for skills development to happen as part of service delivery. With that frame, it feels to me like defining a module isn't the obvious next step. I'd be more keen in an approach that, without needing a priori "authority", gathers a set of stakeholders who can articulate a vision & plan, identify "business needs" (including the needs of the local communities), and deliberately ignores how things are happening today. We can then map those needs to systems that we have and may want to adapt (including the current community websites and community ops, and the systems that IT are currently providing), or systems we need to build anew. I'm happy to help. --david _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
