12 week online mentorship program on Working Open for Mozilla community members
Testing the Open Leadership Training Series + one on one mentorship
####This program is designed to connect open leaders and increase collaboration and contributorship on open projects in our network. This will serve as a generalized way to test a shared onboarding experience across our communities, increase collaboration among programs and strengthen bonds within our network.
Community members starting up or currently leading open projects within any Mozilla program (Science, Learning, Advocacy, IoT, Women & Web Literacy, Participation +more).
Commitment: ~3h / week
See the full list of participants in our Fall 2016 round.
The Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) is designed to teach you best practices in “working open” -- a way of working in which
- a community of people collaborate to make or build something amazing,
- and any product or knowledge that the community of collaborators creates is shared widely and freely with the public on the world wide web.
The 1:1 mentorship will provide additional support as you apply what you’ve learned to your specific project community.
The mentors are Mozilla staff and community members who have completed Open Leadership training and mentorship in the past. They all have experience running open projects, facilitating events and building communities. They’ve demonstrated an understanding of working openly and collaboratively on projects.
See the list of mentors for our Fall 2016 round.
- Meetings
- 1h / week - office hours run by Mozilla staff with the entire cohort. We’ll introduce the next module and go over any discussion questions from assignments.
- 30min / 2 weeks - 1:1 mentorship meetings every two weeks with your mentor. Additional topic experts may join from time to time as needed.
- Homework
- 1-2h / week - complete that week’s assignment from the OLTS
As a cohort, we'll meet every Monday at 12ET. See the meeting in your TimeZone.
| week | Module | Mentorship |
|---|---|---|
| August 22 | Introduction to Open Leadership | 12 Week Goal Setting Exercise. |
| August 29 | Opening Your Project - Open Canvas, README, Roadmap | |
| September 5 | Building Communities of Contributors - Visualize your Network, Personas & Pathways, Distributed Leadership | Review Goals & Progress. Bring in topic expert if needed |
| September 12 | Building Communities of Contributors - Code of Conduct & Contributor Guidelines | |
| September 19 | Get Your Project Online -- Getting Started with GitHub | Review Goals & Progress. Bring in topic expert if needed |
| September 26 | GitHub for Collaboration | |
| October 3 | Open Communications | Review Goals & Progress. Bring in topic expert if needed |
| October 10 | Open Communications | |
| October 17 | Running Awesome Community Events | Review Goals & Progress. Bring in topic expert if needed |
| October 24 | Open Project Maintenance | |
| October 28-30 | MozFest | Meet in person at MozFest! \o/ |
| November 7 | Open Leadership Outro and Next Steps | Celebrate & Debrief |