Hello!
I've been mulling over ways we can improve upon and evolve the venerable Monday Mozilla Project Meeting for about a year now, and recently been in discussions with Chris Beard, Mitchell Baker, and Mardi Douglass about how we can adapt the current format of the meeting to the changing needs of Mozilla. The following is a proposal for some changes we'd like to make.
The Project Meeting will switch from a 100% public call to available for all Mozillians. The goal is to have as lightweight a barrier to viewing and participating in the meeting as possible. The official definition of the intended audience is "individuals who are active in the project and/or have a good faith interest in the mission".
Right now the meeting is scheduled at 11:00am Mountain View time (PST/PDT). This is simultaneously too late for much of Europe and too early for Asia. We'd like to move the call to earlier on Monday (9:00 or 9:30am) to better-accomodate Europe. The idea of rotating the timing of the meeting was floated, but would likely result in it being impossible to schedule around.
There is additional discussion of which day of the week to hold it, with Tuesday being the likely candidate to avoid constant pre-emption by Monday holidays.
The goal is to merge the current public meeting content with the more casual conversational format of the internal staff meeting. By merging them, the Project Meeting would grow to 45 minutes from its current 30.
- Friends of Mozilla - Thank-yous to contributions made to the project in the last week.
- Standing Updates - Certain goal-oriented and mission-focused topics will have an every-week update given. This is similar to the Product Updates but reduced in scope.
- 3 Minute Speakers - This is the current Speakers section as it currently stands, with a slightly higher focus on timeliness. The number of speakers in a given week will be capped for time-reasons to 5.
- Q & A - This will start with answers to questions that have been pre-submitted via our Moderator system, and will transition to open questions collected from IRC and Vidyo.
Currently calendar events are given a 'DJ read', this will be retired, though the calendar will remain as a useful public resource. New Hire/Intern/Community are undergoing a revamp as well, though this is far less-defined. The goal is to move these intros out of this meeting into another format (perhaps something akin to the Taiwan intros?)
There are still several things to figure out before we fully roll-out this new meeting format, and this thread as well as a Mozillans Yammer thread are open for discussion. You can always reach out to me directly as well!
The Project Meeting has become an unepxected and hugely special part of my job at Mozilla, and I genuinely look forward to the disucssion and evolution of an excellent resource for the Mozilla Project. It's your meeting!
~potch
Sounds good to me! I especially like moving the time from 11AM to 9AM in the morning and changing the new hire/intern intros. Here's an idea for the new hire stuff:
• List all new hires with their name, location, manger, role like we have in the wiki today
• Have each newbie make a very short video like they do for Taiwan (like 30 sec each). Skip the manager introduction and let the person intro themselves and say a little bit about what they'll be working on and what they are passionate about (maybe this is done as part of orientation?)
• Put them in a reel and play them back to back in quick succession
• At the end of the year make a sweet video with clips of all the new people we brought on!