Re: Rosetta Stone for Reps

[William Quiviger]

Hey team,

forwarding you Dino's message below which was meant to be a reply-all to the whole team.

- w

On Apr 29, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Dino Anderson <diand...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> William,
>
> The orientations will be recorded and shared out that way people can access them when they are ready.
>
> There is also a Rosetta Stone wiki I made. The resource will be very present in the org. Glad we partnered with Reps. And most agree with you: "I think this sends out a powerful message that Mozilla Reps is about empowerment and helping Reps gain more skills as they grow in the program."
>
>
> Dino
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Quiviger" <wqui...@mozilla.com>
> To: "Mozilla Reps - Council mailing list" mozilla.org>
> Cc: di...@mozilla.com
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 12:28:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [reps-council] Rosetta Stone for Reps
>
>
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Regnard Raquedan <reg...@raquedan.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks!
>>
>> Dino and I had a Google hangout discussion earlier this week about the
>> recent training and development survey. Since I'll likely miss the meeting
>> this weekend for the Webmaker for Nannies event, I'd like to share the key
>> points of our discussion.
>>
>> - As a tie-up between the training & development efforts of ReMo and
>> Dino's initiative on Rosetta Stone (software for language training) for
>> Mozilla staff and volunteers, it was identified that 50-60 Rosetta Stone
>> licenses will be allotted for Mozilla Reps! :D
>
> That's fantastic news.
>
>>
>> - Learning Rosetta Stone requires a high level of commitment, and one of
>> the challenges before was that people took the licenses but had little idea
>> about this commitment. Reps who will take advantage of this nice perk will
>> have to attend a virtual Rosetta orientation on May 1 & 2 to set
>> expectations and improve chances of learning.
>
> Are those two virtual orientations the only opportunities Reps will have? May 1st is a bank holiday in many countries around the world so I would suspect that many Reps will not be able to attend. Any chance we can have a few more and spread out throughout the month?
>>
>> - In addition to the orientation, it will heavily communicated to the
>> Reps that once there is a level of inactivity on their Rosetta Stone
>> license, they are aware that their license may be given to someone else
>> (the licenses are scarce, after all).
>
> Great.
>>
>> - The Training & Development Task Force will identify the 50-60 Reps who
>> will receive the licenses. As leader of the task force, I plan to delegate
>> this to 2-3 members of the task force:
>> https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/training-task-force
>
> Excellent.
>>
>> - This will be communicated to the after the Council meeting, after your
>> inputs on this matter.
>>
>> If anyone has some comments, please post it here or discuss during the
>> Council meeting. Thanks! :D
>
> Thanks Regnard and Dino for driving this and making this happen. Really look forward to seeing how this works out. On a more general note, I think this sends out a powerful message that Mozilla Reps is about empowerment and helping Reps gain more skills as they grow in the program.
>
> - w
>
>>
>> --
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[Regnard Raquedan]

Hello folks!

Just to update you as well. The ReMo Rosetta Stone Team (Hugo Acosta,
Srikar Ananthula, Dwarak Nath, & I) are done making the list. We will be
posting an update to the list today.