What is the Mozilla Reps program?

A global program that aims to empower Mozillians who want to represent Mozilla in their region and represent their region in Mozilla

• A simple, stuctured framework
• Providing simple but powerful tools
• Push responsibility and authority outwards

Open

Documented

Community Driven

Responsibilities

• represent Mozilla in their country/region
• work closely with project teams
• promote the Mozilla Project and our mission
• inspire, recruit, mentor and support new contributors

Structure

What we've accomplished so far...

315+ Mozilla Reps

492 Events (~1.25 events per day)

27 mentors interviewing applicants and mentoring new Reps

436 Swag Requests

222 Budget Requests

1360 Reports

http://reps.mozilla.org

• Profile page
• Map
• Dashboard
• Monthly Reports

Mozilla Reps Camp

Challenges

• Quality vs. Quantity
• Governance
• Awareness (internal and external)
• Regional imbalance (mentors overload, uncovered areas)

• Phase in new council - 3 this election, 4 the next
• pre-defined criteria for nominees
• former council members can run for re-election but not concurrent terms
• past council members can “shadow” members and provide guidance/mentorship when needed

Communications channels

• Mailing list (a lot of noise --> rules)
• Facebook Group
• IRC Regional Meetings - not consistent
• Etherpad (brainstorming)
• SOLUTION : ...

Swag

• Choosing the right vendor
• Delays and Prohibitive Custom Fees
• SOLUTION : Local production (challenge to maintain brand and quality)

Budgets

Bringing the old crew along

Leveraging the power of Mozilla Reps

How can Mozilla Reps be a transformative program for Mozilla?

• Comms
• Marketing
• SUMO
• IT
• QA
• Policy, Coding, Add-ons.....

Mentors mentoring new mentors

Empowering the Mozilla Reps Council to become more than the governing body of the program

Meet a Rep!

What's next for Mozilla Reps?

More tools to empower Mozilla Reps!

Events Manager

Physical Spaces

Council and Mentor Voting System

Swag customization + local production

Integration with mozilla.org/contribute

Deeper mozillians.org integration

ReMo Labs

Sign-up to become a Mozilla Rep today!

Apply today! http://mzl.la/joinremo

Questions?

@brianking @bkerensa