Two weeks ago some 1000+ Mozillians gathered in Portland for a workweek. Attendance was, as usual, from all over the world – staff and volunteers all working really hard, together, to visualize 2015 – and in the evenings we met at various restaurants all over town to unwind and socialize. It was on one of
Year: 2014
Co-written with Larissa Shapiro At Mozilla we’re always thinking about how to improve our products, how to continue a legacy of innovation and quality while shipping often. That said, we can’t talk about Mozilla’s history, or future without acknowledging the critical role of our global volunteer community in our success, and of it’s importance to
This post has been a long-time coming, as there are important changes to the Reps Mentorship program SOP and process as a result of RemoCamp Berlin. A quick background! I believe very, very much in the power of mentorship in general, and in Reps specifically I know that in mentorship lies the potential to unlock
In an effort to make the call more accessible to other timezones we had an early call (7AM PST) today. EtherPad We covered a few things I want to highlight: Guides Update Guides continues to get busier, and as we’ve had an expected drop-off of Guides from our original group, I want to thank those
This afternoon I met with a group of parents – a group of fantastic, involved parents who want to learn, understand, and just – ‘get‘ what their middle-school aged children need from them to navigate the web. At least that’s my take on what they were expecting. These are also very good friends of mine:
Mozilla Guides was launched recently in coordination with the new (and beautiful) Mozilla Get Involved Page. Guides is a program to help brand new and potential contributors orient themselves, choose a pathway, and gain confidence in the early days of contribution. Guides themselves play a critical role in helping new contributors overcome both common and
As per usual, the Mozilla Festival was amazing. I always find attending this event unofficially sets my course for the new year – and it’s already clear that will be the case again for 2015, as a result of Baroness Beeban Kidron’s keynote. “Young people must understand not only how the web works, but be
In recent years, I’ve organized loads of Webmaker events for youth. And on the opposite end, I’ve also run many hackathons for experienced engineers interested in contributing to open source, through my work at SocialCoding4Good. For just as long, I’ve noticed the absence of opportunity for higher education students to get involved, which is why
Cross-post of a blog I wrote for SocialCoding4Good. I’m looking for a contributor to help me build a volunteer platform using Drupal+ Open Badges. Development and contribution will focus on the Drupal and Mozilla projects, and my offer to mentor the chosen contributor. More on the project and how to apply here. mage credit:
As long as I’ve been an open source participant (since 2005), I’ve rather tirelessly (and some might say annoyingly) encouraged others to also ‘get involved‘. In the beginning this talk was straight forward: I simply spoke a lot about learning, how much you can learn! Who you can learn from, who you can mentor, how