Reps/Meetings/Council-2015-02-18

Notes from the Mozilla Reps Council meeting on 2015/02/18 02:30:00 PM.

Attendees

• Rardila

• Ankitgadgil

• Nukeador

• Emmairwin

• Lasr21

• San Emmanuel James

Topics

Self nomination by reps for being mentors

• The council discussed on the better explanation of procedure for facilitating self nomination of Reps fro being mentors.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs/Mentoring
• Currently Reps need a mentor to vouch their application and send it to the Council.

Mentorship feedback

• Discussions about how and how often do we have to gather feedback about Reps mentors.

Quarterly budgets for larger communities

• The council aims to start an email thread conversation with mentors and gather ideas, views and information about the idea.

New mentors training

• Newly inducted mentors will be participating in training sessions about mentorship in Reps and will work on initial tasks to get up with the system.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs/Mentoring_Training

Local Swag

• Discussions about local swag production and how we can optimize the situation with help from project teams.

Alumni and the 3-months away policy for Reps

• The council reviewed the new Alumni status for Reps policy.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/Alumni
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs/Leaving

Firefox OS devices being bought using Reps Budget

• Discussions around the topic led to a need of policy for this.
• More support from Firefox OS team, in defining when and how to provide devices to reps.

Summary of why mentor approved budget

• The council agreed for the need of this action from mentors. A mentor should comment about his/her's decision of approving/denying the budget request. This will help the council to understand the budget request clearly and also increase transparency and clear need of the budget for impact.