Hi Akshay, Let me answer specifically about the programs and team I am and I've been involved during the last 5 years and frame my answer on Mark's post back then and illustrate with some examples (there are probably more but too long for an email):
/"Many more people than today are working on Mozilla activities around the world in their own small groups."/ / / One key aspect of the work we have been doing with communities in the past years is to take care of both mission-driven mozillians and also people who just wanted to help mozilla for different reasons. Today we have a group of 40K+ people subscribed to our "Campaigners" newsletter <https://activate.mozilla.community/> and ready to chime in different opportunities and campaigns during the year. "/Some of these people participate by helping to build, improve or promote our products and programs. Our products and programs get better all the time because people are participating. This is traditional open source participation, but not just limited to software and updated with current methods and approaches."/ / / In the past two years we have run different campaigns <https://activate.mozilla.community/campaigns> to help with this, and contributors were fundamental to identify key Firefox Quantum regressions before launch, hugely advance Common Voice recollection rates, increase Firefox for Android rating on the play store or support the launch of Firefox Preview by identifying key issues and improvements during the early days as some examples. /"Others are coming up with new ideas for products, programs, whatever — things that move the mission forward in ways that others in Mozilla see as valuable. This is more of an ‘open innovation meets distributed leadership’ definition of participation. IMHO, this is something we want to do but haven’t done well in the past."/ / / There are few clear examples of this in my mind right now: Volunteers being part of the Reps program leadership structure and body (module and Council) identifying and leading changes on how we support our communities and providing feedback to Open Innovation plans each quarter, including the designed activities and campaigns we have been running. Ideation work we are currently running with Common Voice contributors to engage in the problem space and coming with their own assumptions and test their own solutions to the problems we have, not engaging in a staff-driven campaign but coming with their own community-driven ones. /"A clear (and updated) framework for starting something — a project, a local group, etc."/ / / During the past two years we have been developing seven themes <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mission-driven-mozillians-2018-update/25068> which are super connected to some of the items Mark listed. From Diversity and inclusion principles and Community participation guidelines, to improve resource distribution to the co-created leadership agreements (shaping l10n, Reps and SUMO communities already), or a community portal <https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/community-portal> that will be ready in a few months to integrate most of the needs around onboarding, opportunity discovery and community organization. All of this has been possible thanks to the Community Development team on Open Innovation (formerly participation team) and hundreds and thousands or contributors helping shape the direction and providing value with their contributors. I understand that some of these changes might have not been as visible as you wanted to, but we have been taking small steps into the right direction for years (and we continue to do so) and I think we are way better set-up for radical participation today than in 2015 :-) Cheers. El 29/10/19 a las 18:43, Akshay S Dinesh via governance escribió: > Dear Mozilla Governance, > > Let me list out 3 posts by Mark Surman from 2015 > https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/what-is-radical-participation/ > https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/participationplan/ > https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/participation-permission-and-momentum/ > > I was very much excited about it at that point. There was a lot of things > happening. > > Then, 4 years down the line, here are some discourse threads: > https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/about-gratification-for-volunteers-in-mozilla/38181 > https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/about-the-volunteer-role-in-the-mozilla-workflow-decision-chain/38451 > https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/feedback-regarding-the-reps-program-in-india/47657/ > (this one is by me and I'm definitely embarrassed about the aggressive > language and half sure Mitchell Baker is going to scold me for that) > > The links above are optional to read. The question I have is: How far have > we come on the "radical participation" idea? I request an update on this > from the top leadership at Mozilla. > > (Surely there are things like community participation guidelines, MOSS, > Open Leaders cohort. But what about the other things? How healthy is the > ReMo program? What happened to the participation open innovation team?) > > Eagerly waiting for an honest appraisal of the progress, > Akshay > > -- > Akshay S Dinesh > https://mozillians.org/u/asdofindia > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance -- Rubén Martín [Nukeador] Mozilla Reps Mentor http://www.mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano
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