Regional Communities and their management [George in India]

[Abhiram Ravikumar]

Hi everyone,

As most of you know George from Mozilla's Participation Team is touring
India to meet different regional communities across the country.

The discussion in Bangalore was majorly on 4 fronts.

1. Discussion with regard to what the mission of Mozilla is, in the
current context vis-a-vis Google & Facebook
2. Participation team and innovation - strategies used to funnel &
prioritize ideas
3. Mozilla's advances in IoT, Rust and Servo - backed up by a Rust
meetup in Bangalore in early July
4. Reinventing Mozilla's campus presence

A separate discussion which took shape was the working model of the task
forces v/s regional communities. Hitherto, we had been working on the task
force basis which is a functional aspect - which is still working well for
task forces like Social Media and Policy & advocacy. Other task forces are
non-existent either because of inactivity or Mozilla's decision to end the
project (webmaker).

In the past year however, we have seen the emergence of regional nuclear
communities although there was no structure built for such an emergence. It
just happened organically, which has showed great signs at Rajasthan,
Gujarat and Indore. So, what is the further course of action? Do we help
shaping regional contributions or take up functional areas or both? One of
the solutions could be that we set a basic minimum criteria for a community
to fulfill and later foster them to organically develop. These are some of
the questions we need to answer as a community.

Another discussion was about how to partner with research institutions and
their professors to focus on path breaking innovations.

Do check out and post your replies to a related discussion on community
here:
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/what-does-a-mozilla-community-mean/8999
.

Feel free to reply to this mailing thread with the discussions in other
parts of India. If you've attended the Bangalore meetup and I've missed out
any details, feel free to add them.

--
Regards,
Abhiram Ravikumar
Regional Ambassador Lead, Mozilla
http://abhiramrk.com/

[viswaprasath]

HI All,

Just adding other coordinators. So they can remember to share their Minutes
of meetings.
Will be happy to know insights from all the meetings.

Thank you

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Abhiram Ravikumar <abhi1...@gmail.com>
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[umesh agarwal]

Adding Prathamesh so that he can share the details for Pune event.

Thank You
Regards
Umesh Agarwal

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:25 PM, viswaprasath <shihan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[abhi1...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, 2 June 2016 22:42:50 UTC+5:30, Rabimba Karanjai wrote:
> Are the topics presented here up for *more* discussion? If they are then a
> discourse thread will be helpful.
> If they are not, will wait for other MoM’s to see what different discussion
> took place between other communities. Or if they are al same.
>

Hi Rabimba,

Yes the topics raised in the thread are up for more discussion. There's already a discourse link [1] mentioned in the discussion, started by Akshay with regard to community dynamics. Please feel free to raise your thoughts over there or on the mailing list.

A gentle reminder - please avoid replying to messages with subject line having "community-india Digest" as the flow of the thread gets truncated. As mentioned earlier, reply on the Google groups [2] or just write "Re: + <subject line>" if you'd like to reply from your inbox.

Thank you.

[1] - https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/what-does-a-mozilla-community-mean/8999
[2] - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.community.india