Pathways/meetings/Meeting 06 12 14

Meeting Details

• Time: Thursday, June 12 at 11:15 AM Pacific / 18:15 UTC
• Video: Larissa Shapiro's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, Phone: Call 1-650-903-0800, x92 then 9 and 864586458645 then #, or: +1 800 707 2533, pin 369 - then 9 and 8645then 8645 then #8645 then #
• Room: Get to Angela Davis in San Francisco and The Hulk in Mountain View (first floor behind the people team desks)
• Backchannel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#cbt
• Hashtag for meeting: #mozillapathways

Agenda/Notes

Please feel free to take notes: https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/pathways-2014-06-12

Introductions

I am __________________ @ ________. I got involved by ________________ and my favorite thing about June is _____________________

• Christie Koehler
• I am @lizznoonan. I got involved by being a volunteer > intern > contractor > employee on the Brand Engagement team and my favorite thing about June is my birthday/it's my favorite month!
• Mike Larsson @stenington
• Chloe Varelidi
• Lyre
• Larissa
• chaasof

Chloe Vareldi will present her amazing Pathway finding tool!

Discover is a tool prototype that connects Open Badges to your interests, education, experiences and personality traits. Combined, these paint a picture of the skills you have -- and where you need to grow -- to apply for your dream job, volunteer position or learning opportunity.

• discover.openbadges.org
• initially design to help young people explore possible career paths
• interviewed people working in different industries, created a directory
• pathways in real-life aren't linear; more like puzzle pieces
• discovered that telling your personal pathway story is rewarding, both for the storyteller and for audience
• badges are core vs not-core?
• Can we include badges from anyplace from the open badges world?
• planned to have the discovery connected to directory of badges of issuers from all over the place
• what about analytics? would like to have this
• can we adapt to use to outline and guide people through mozilla contrib pathways?
  • working with 3 contributors to learn about use case
• stories are important, can we outline what points to collect with getting people's stories? e.g. what's a badge-able moment, etc.

Mentoring to Guiding

• Full discussion over email here: https://pastebin.mozilla.org/5392563
• Can we make an action point about this and broadcast it over the Project Call?
• Let's set a deadline:
• What are the next steps for establishing Guides as a thing?
  • ck will start an etherpad and we'll hack on it together
  • will aim to publish by end of june
• not a new thing, people are already fulfilling this role in some areas of the project. we can identify them and make sure they have the support they need
• suggested approach: clarify what a guide is, what scope is and id how to support (vs approach as we're changing mentor to guide)
• there's a specific context for this:
  • We want to define a group of folks who provide support for brand new Mozillians or new contributors, as well as existing ones who want/need a new project. This is not meant to change terminology or scope for existing successful mentoring programs.

• Action items:
  • team will hack on an etherpad for documentation share and turn that into a blog post defining this project and share out around the project
  • we will then seek out folks who may already be doing guide type work to learn from them
  • eventually, we'll communicate this out broadly and use it on channels such as (but not limited to) the get involved page, in order to help move new contributors forward

Tabled items:

Contributor matching and timely contribution opportunities improvement

• This is similar to pathways finding tool
• Skipped this week, we'll come back to it when Jennie is back.

Non-profit partnerships and pathways building (Larissa)

• Goal: Build NGO and non-profit partnerships that will help us broaden our contribution opportunities.
• Ask - is anyone else working on partnerships in their area?
  • Lyre - community lead for code for boston (chapter of code for america), also have Mozillians in Tulsa (luke crouch), chattanooga (?)
  • Seems like a great synergy with Teachtheweb team & Maker Party/Mozfest folks.
  • Ben M. from MoFo could be a great point of contact ben@mozillafoundation.org (development/partnerships lead)

Contributor spotlights and "story telling"

• Opportunity: about:mozilla newsletter, re-vamped get involved page (in development), member of press team is working on documenting contributor stories in interview style
• How do we triage who to highlight? e.g. how do we identify who justin should interview when (bugzilla ??)
• Have a separate meeting to figure out process? Yes.
• Would you like to be involved?
  • Lizz
  • Larissa

Work week update?

• Working on organizing a joint community building working group meetups this summer. Pathways, recognition and education. Reached out to folks individually. Tell Larissa if you didn't get an invite and want to attend.
• http://whenisgood.net/aq4sp99/results/xqmf85s
• How to get involved with planning? Put your name here:

Silent updates!

What is one new pathway you have identified recently? Lizz: "Brand Police" - lightweight, entrance pathway that has volunteer contributors reporting old logos, outdated websites, etc. to the creative team +1

Action Items and Notes

• Action items:
  • CK: edit and post meeting notes
  • CK: start etherpad to brainstorm post about what is a "guide" and how pathways is working to support them
  • Larissa: Organize a meeting with contributor storytelling stakeholders to figure out how to identify and collect stories
  • Jennie will add them here https://trello.com/b/akOzVtW1/pathways-working-group-action-points on Friday
• Video of meeting
• Notes of meeting