Coagulate our talents to help level up community

[LauraHilliger]

It seems like a fantabulous idea to upgrade the training site to be community built, with the support resources and co-design guides for our curriculum construction and community support activities. I see, dare I say, pathways 🍸 between loads of things we're working on:

@Lucyeoh and @Saallen are putting together excellent videos for leveling up our community - organizing speakers / guest speaking appearances, spreading the word.

@dajbelshaw has been building out some amazing wiki content to help folks remix if they wanna and level up their curriculum-making skillz.

@iamjessklein is responsible for the new teaching kit page looking so slick, she rules at learning experience design, and she makes creepy eyes too.

@keyboardkat not only has a unique perspective on net neutrality, she designs and builds curriculum that people want to engage with.

@toolness what can I say? You've got skillz. Everyone knows you're a mad scientist. Every endeavor needs mad scientists (I'd wager we have a few in this group) 🔬

Would you all like to do a redux on the webmaker training site with me? I'm sure if we all worked together, we could better determine what "leveling up" in Webmakerland means, rebrand, find some easy wins and make the site that was built more useful to us and our communities. The github is here, the site is here. I'm not married to any of this, FWIW, but we have this property we can build on, so I thought looking at it through the lens of work you WANT to do might be valuable.

What do you all think?

[dajbelshaw]

I'm up for helping with this, but what's the strategy for training in 2015? It seemed to work best when there was a start and an end point rather than 'always on'.

Do people like working best when part of a cohort and when they feel like they've got our full attention? We could test...

[iamjessklein]

I would say that this is sounding suspiciously like a heartbeat.
cc/ @thisandagain @simonwex @cassiemc

[ldecoursy]

We should think around how this connects to the clubs platform, and the clubs initiative overall @hannahkane @thornet

[davidascher]

And from a practical point of view a good topic is how to rethink our
content authoring tools. It can be simpler than it has been.
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[keyboardkat]

I'm happy to help with this when/where it's useful. Also I'd like to give props for usage of the term "coagulate" (#WIN). I plus one @ldecoursy's thought of it being part of the clubs codesign process somehow. Hmm!

[cassiemc]

Would love to see this scoped to heartbeat-sized pieces of work so we can incorporate it into tps planning, even if it starts with a heartbeat-to-plan-future-heartbeats (like what we did with the branding ticket this week). @ldecoursy @hannahkane @LauraHilliger I wonder if that would be possible to do for next Monday? Really want to make sure we can give this proper resourcing and support and make sure it fits in with strategy across the org.

[ldecoursy]

@cassiemc See MozillaFoundation/plan#212 Our team needs to sync up a bit on plans (during the next heartbeat) so we can start to do just that. Stay tuned ;)

[LauraHilliger]

Woot! Looks like the issue @ldecoursy linked to will help is get going on integrating training on teach.wm.org. I added this etherpad, which has loads about curriculum development, content and community support

https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/training-redux

Maybe this team can start think about categorizing / curating / coagulating 😜 content and curriculum, while we get our ducks in a row on integration. Plenty to do (when we made the training content we were still pushing the tools, so we have to think of tool agnostic / github ways to help people contribute curriculum. No easy task!)