Contribute/Education/Notes/2014-02-21 Working Group Meeting

Attendees

Dino, Christie, Larissa, Jennie

Christie suggests the following changes to our meetings:
- meetings every-other week (rather than weekly)
- two meetings: a) Friday 9:00 PT / 17:00 UTC and b) Sunday 22:00 PT / Monday 6:00 UTC
We talked a lot about diversity, cultural literacy and related issues:
- we need clear, unified participation guidelines
- we need clear mechanisms for addressing and resolving conflict
- need to include cultural awareness in all of our tools; when cultural content is not full understood, people may not always feel comfortable using tools we have
- we have good ground work for this: DICE, TRIBE (working with others)
- can start with above and work to improve, iterating over time
- will need to bring in outside, professional resources to train staff / contributors
- We briefly talked about the upcoming new contributor survey and reviewed the demographic information being asked for. Agreed that it was a good start towards understanding current state of diversity across the org.
Safari books (Jennie):
- this is a really important resource to make easily available to non-staff
- value both in terms of the technical information it provides but also as a tool for recognition
- should map escalating access to contributor lifecycle (e.g. greater access as contrib move through lifecycle)
- Dino is at times overwhelmed by requests. Christie offered to be a backup to help with this.

Dino: Draft proposal for how to meet with diversity groups when they are visiting Mozilla in March.
Christie: Clean up meeting notes and send to group.
Christie: Schedule next meeting.
Christie: Review roadmap developed in December CBT meeting and identify which are priority items to addresses this quarter.