http://blog.alinamierlus.com Stuff I do and learn Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:00:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.alinamierlus.com/2011/10/mozcamp-europe-berlin/comment-page-1/#comment-1334 William Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:00:47 +0000 http://blog.alinamierlus.com/?p=401#comment-1334 Excellent blog post Alina. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on what value you see in attending MozCamp and what the fundamentel ingredients are to make it worthwhile and productive. I fully agree with all three fundamentals. As a member of the organizational team of MozCamp Europe, here are some comments: - "Collaboratively making of the agenda": our plan has always been to build the schedule collaboratively (and NOT just ask for talk submissions). The challenge with that is time. Indeed, time is of the essence. To successfully build a robust program collaboatively, you need several months, so you have time to organize regular discussions on IRC, organise conference calls, distill feedback and suggestions, share ideas on a mailing list, blog about take-aways of brainstorms, gather more feedback etc... For MozCamp, we have not had the luxury of time and have to adapt to the fact that we only had about 2 months to plan. We still are building the program collaboratiely, just not as collaboratively as we would have hoped for perhaps, but starting next week, we'll be gathering feedback on all the gathered proposals and plan to set up a type of rating system to guage everyone's interest in talks proposed. Also, you (and anyone) is welcome to take full owner ship of a session outside of the tracks, to be held in the MozCam's common room. I'll be blogging about this next week. - "Community-based": yes, we are working really hard to ensure a good balance between staff anf volunteers leading sessions. We encouraging EVERYONE to submit proposals so please do submit a proposal!! :) - "Focus on the essential": I totally agree with you. And this is what we've defined early on the overall theme of the mozcamp: "Many Voices, One Mozilla".That is what Mozilla is all about and finds it's strength in --> diversity founded on shared values. All the different tracks will tie back to this theme and help Mozillians have a better understanding of how they can deepend they involvement in the community, better address the challenges we have and ultimatemy strengthn the community moving forward. This is what MozCamp is all about. Excellent blog post Alina. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on what value you see in attending MozCamp and what the fundamentel ingredients are to make it worthwhile and productive. I fully agree with all three fundamentals. As a member of the organizational team of MozCamp Europe, here are some comments:
- “Collaboratively making of the agenda”: our plan has always been to build the schedule collaboratively (and NOT just ask for talk submissions). The challenge with that is time. Indeed, time is of the essence. To successfully build a robust program collaboatively, you need several months, so you have time to organize regular discussions on IRC, organise conference calls, distill feedback and suggestions, share ideas on a mailing list, blog about take-aways of brainstorms, gather more feedback etc… For MozCamp, we have not had the luxury of time and have to adapt to the fact that we only had about 2 months to plan. We still are building the program collaboratiely, just not as collaboratively as we would have hoped for perhaps, but starting next week, we’ll be gathering feedback on all the gathered proposals and plan to set up a type of rating system to guage everyone’s interest in talks proposed. Also, you (and anyone) is welcome to take full owner ship of a session outside of the tracks, to be held in the MozCam’s common room. I’ll be blogging about this next week.
- “Community-based”: yes, we are working really hard to ensure a good balance between staff anf volunteers leading sessions. We encouraging EVERYONE to submit proposals so please do submit a proposal!!
- “Focus on the essential”: I totally agree with you. And this is what we’ve defined early on the overall theme of the mozcamp: “Many Voices, One Mozilla”.That is what Mozilla is all about and finds it’s strength in –> diversity founded on shared values. All the different tracks will tie back to this theme and help Mozillians have a better understanding of how they can deepend they involvement in the community, better address the challenges we have and ultimatemy strengthn the community moving forward. This is what MozCamp is all about.

]]> http://blog.alinamierlus.com/2011/10/mozcamp-europe-berlin/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 Ioana Chiorean Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:25:03 +0000 http://blog.alinamierlus.com/?p=401#comment-1286 Unfortunatelly I'll be in Barcelona that weekend and it seems I won't meet you nor in Barca, nor in Berlin.. hmm :( Unfortunatelly I’ll be in Barcelona that weekend and it seems I won’t meet you nor in Barca, nor in Berlin.. hmm

]]> http://blog.alinamierlus.com/2011/01/what-makes-a-movement-users-mozilla-local-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Mark Surman Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:13:13 +0000 http://www.alinamierlus.com/?p=373#comment-912 Thanks for this, Alina. Great contribution. The other thing that's inspiring about LUGs is they were totally self organizing at a local level -- but also a part of something bigger. That's a critical part that Mozilla will also need to support and encourage over time. It gets to Bogo's question about how members become grounded in something local. We can probably learn from LUGs in this regard. Thanks for this, Alina. Great contribution. The other thing that’s inspiring about LUGs is they were totally self organizing at a local level — but also a part of something bigger. That’s a critical part that Mozilla will also need to support and encourage over time. It gets to Bogo’s question about how members become grounded in something local. We can probably learn from LUGs in this regard.

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