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Discussing Mozilla’s proposed 2010 goals

deb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:33:11 +0000

Last month, Mitchell Baker posted a list of proposed goals she believes Mozilla should work towards achieving by 2010. Now Mitchell is looking to expand and continue the discussion around these proposed goals, and she has written a blog post outlining the next steps we’ll be taking towards ensuring that the whole Mozilla community has an opportunity to participate in the discussion and provide thoughts and feedback. “Mozilla has many groups of people who work together on particular aspects of Mozilla products, technology, adoption and mission. These groups are a natural setting for discussing the overall goals of the Mozilla project, and what motivates people to contribute. With that in mind, we’re planning a set of discussions to give more people a chance to participate comfortably. Some of these will be face-to-face meetings; others will be online discussions.” For more information about these smaller group discussions and other forums that are available for ongoing feedback, see Mitchell’s blog post.

Managing in/with/around/by chaos

deb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:13:33 +0000

John Lilly recently gave a talk at Stanford about Mozilla’s structure and decision-making processes. “[I]t’s about how Mozilla is organized, and how we push decision-making to the edges of any organization we have — it’s really an organization design and behavior talk.” The presentation is an interesting look into the thinking and blended system of chaos and order behind Mozilla. John has posted his slides over on Slideshare, which you can view here: Stanford Presentation on Mozilla.

Mozilla: Defining our 2010 goals

deb — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:46:26 +0000

Mitchell Baker is leading the effort towards defining the 2010 goals for Mozilla, and has recently posted a draft version of the proposed goals. Setting these sorts of broad aspirational goals is critical because “[a]rticulating a broad, commonly shared set of aspirations helps many disparate groups of people organize themselves and work towards very practical, concrete tasks that make our aspirations real.” The 2010 goals “should be concrete enough that people can respond to them and provide a means for evaluating the scope of progress. Perhaps even more importantly, these goals should express important ideas rather than specifying implementation plans.”

Mitchell’s initial post outlines the background and purpose of the goal setting process, and her second post includes the draft set of proposed 2010 goals that have emerged from various discussions, including feedback gathered during the Firefox Summit. If you’re interested in the longer-term goal setting and direction of the Mozilla project, Mitchell asks that you “[p]lease take some time and review the proposed goals, make suggestions, ask questions, and make alternative proposals.” You are invited and encouraged to take part in this conversation, as these goals form the foundation of what it is that Mozilla does and aspires to become. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Mozilla Community Calendar

deb — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:48:22 +0000

Deb Richardson is putting together a comprehensive list of weekly/regular public project meetings and other events. The wiki page for it is here: Community Calendar. The plan is to eventually publish a consolidated version as a shared public calendar that everyone can subscribe to. Please check the wiki page and make any changes or additions necessary.