roadmap.md

Welcome to the 2016 Mozilla Fellows for Science Roadmap!

This roadmap provides you with a bit of structure for the fellowship.

Over the next 10 months, you'll create amazing projects, build communities, train our next set of open science leaders, and champion working open and open science in ways that we haven't yet dreamed of and we'd like to organize those thoughts, prototypes, and projects here.

TASKS/DELIVERABLES

We've broken the 10 month period into phases, to help you organize your time (Explore, Prototype, Test/Share, Refine, Launch). Deliverables are for each phase of the project will be listed as that phase nears, and sorted into directories named for the phase. The deliverables will help you document your project's evolution, and make your process transparent and reusable for our wider community.

We've assigned point people (contact list here) who can help you with questions and clarifications about the tasks listed below. We also have a directory of fellows' contacts, should you like to reach out to eachother here.

See below for a timeline of the tasks for the year. All is subject to change/updating. Again, your feedback is welcome!

CALENDAR

A general program calendar can be found in this spreadsheet, and it will likely update with more frequency relative to events.

PHASE	DATE	ACTIVITY	LOCATION	PARTICIPANTS	REQUIRED?
EXPLORE	Sep. 7, 2016	Start-date for some fellows		Fellows	x
EXPLORE	Sep. 7, 2016	Start-date for other fellows		Fellows	x
EXPLORE	Sep. 12, 2016	Fellows announced, live on site, project call	Toronto, CA	MSL Staff	x
EXPLORE	Sep. 12 - 16, 2016	Fellowship onboarding week (travel days Sept 11 and Sept 17)	Toronto	MSL + Fellows + Joey	x
EXPLORE	Oct. 28 - 30, 2016	MozFest (travel days Oct 27 and Oct 31)	London, UK	MSL + Fellows + Alumni	x
EXPLORE	Nov. 12 - 14, 2016	OpenCon (travel days Nov 11 and Nov 15)	Washington D.C., USA	MSL + Fellows + Alumni
PROTOTYPE	Dec. 5 - 11, 2016	Mozilla staff all-hands	Hawaii, USA	MSL
PROTOTYPE	Feb. 6 - 10, 2017	Fellows work week + WOW	TBD	MSL + Fellows	x
PROTOTYPE	Mar 15, 2017 (dates TBD)	GET conference (travel days Mar 5 and Mar 11) // OpenVis	Boston, USA	MSL + Fellows + Alumni
PROTOTYPE	Mar 29 - 31, 2017	RightsCon Summit (travel days Mar 28 and Apr 1)	San Francisco, USA	Fellows
TEST/SHARE	April (date TBD)	Fellows' Work Week / Open Web Sprint (virtual) w/ OWF	TBD	MSL + OWF + Fellows
SHARE	June 2 - 3, 2017 (details TBD)	Global Sprint	Remote	MSL + Fellows + Alumni + Community	x
REFINE	June 5 - 9, 2017 (details TBD)	Graduation + Wrap-up Workweek	TBD	MSL + Fellows	x
REFINE	June 7, 2017	Fellowship End-date for 9/7 start-date		Fellows	x
REFINE	June 12, 2017	Fellowship End-date for 9/12 start-date		Fellows	x
LAUNCH	June 26 - Jul 1, 2017	Mozilla All-Hands	San Francisco, USA	MSL + 2 Fellows	~
LAUNCH	June 29, 2017	Closing Dinner w/ OWF	San Francisco, USA	MSL + OWF + 2 Fellows	~

TIMELINE/PHASES

The phase deliverables and work periods are as follows (deliverables are due on the last day of the period).

EXPLORE (September 2016 - November 2016)

You’ll be doing project research and development planning exercises and contributing to the MSL blog throughout the EXPLORE phase.

September:

Exercises :

• Goal-setting

• Blog response on intro to MSL

• Start résumé

• Work on Zines

  Events : Onboarding

  Calls : Wednesday 9/21, 13:00 EST

October:

Exercises :

• Elevator pitch (polished! jargon free, to be presented on Dec 15 call)

• Fellow-Fellow Interviews

• Blog response on Interviews or Elevator Pitch

  Events : Mozfest

  Calls : Wednesday 10/5 + 10/19, 11:00 EST

  Community Call : 10/13, 11:00 EST

November:

Exercises :

• 7 slide presentation (shareable) and/or short video

• Describing (and testing) your idea

  Events : OpenCon

  Calls : Wednesday 11/9 + 11/23, 13:00 EST

PROTOTYPE (December 2016 - March 2017)

You’ll be working on testing and building out your proposed project(s) throughout the PROTOTYPE phase.

December:

Exercises :

• Roadmap w/ technical requirements

• Blog response on roadmapping

• Blog response on scheduling/time management

  Calls : Wednesday 12/14 (holidays contingent), 13:00 EST

  Community Call : 12/15, 11:00 EST

January:

Exercises :

• Project schedule

• Project surveys

  • Week/Sprint Entry Survey
  • Week/Sprint Exit Survey

• Blog response on idea + users for project(s)

  Calls : Wednesday 1/4 + 1/18, 13:00 EST

February:

Exercises :

• Project surveys

• Blog response on WOW

  Events : Work week + WOW

  Calls : Wednesday 2/1 + 2/15, 13:00 EST

  Community Call : 2/9, 11:00 EST

March:

Exercises :

• Project surveys

• Blog response on impact of project(s)

  Events : GET Conf, OpenVis, RightsCon

  Calls : Wednesday 3/1 + 3/15 + 3/29, 13:00 EST

TEST/SHARE (April 2017 - May 2017)

You’ll be identify communities in which you can test and showcase your prototypes and get feedback that will inform pre-launch polishing in the TEST/SHARE phase.

April:

Exercises :

• Documentation Exercise

• Event Planning or mini-WOW

• Blog response on documentation

  Events : Work week + Open Web Sprint

  Calls : Wednesday 4/12 + 4/26, 13:00 EST

  Community Call : 4/13, 11:00 EST

May:

Exercises :

• Sustainability Plan

• Blog response on fellowship retrospective

  Calls : Wednesday 5/10 + 5/24 + 5/31, 13:00 EST

REFINE (June 2017)

You’ll wrap-up your fellowship by packaging your project(s) for launch and publicity in July during the REFINE phase.

June:

Exercises :

• Update résumé

• Choose launch data and prioritize final features

• Revisit Goal-setting from onboarding and first month

  Events : Global Sprint, Graduation

  Calls : Wednesday 6/7 + 6/21 Retrospective call, 13:00 EST

  Community Calls : 6/9, 11:00 EST

LAUNCH (July 2017)

We'll blog, tweet, and publicize your projects throughout our network during the LAUNCH phase.