Meeting Notes :: 21 February 2014

[Christie Koehler]

Notes from today's meeting available here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Education/Notes/2014-02-21_Working_Group_Meeting

And also included below.

== Attendees ==

Dino, Christie, Larissa, Jennie

== Notes ==

* Christie suggests the following changes to our meetings:
** meetings every-other week (rather than weekly)
** two meetings: a) Friday 9:00 PT / 17:00 UTC and b) Sunday 22:00 PT /
Monday 6:00 UTC

* We talked a lot about diversity, cultural literacy and related issues:
** we need clear, unified participation guidelines
** we need clear mechanisms for addressing and resolving conflict
** need to include cultural awareness in all of our tools; when cultural
content is not full understood, people may not always feel comfortable
using tools we have
** we have good ground work for this: DICE, TRIBE (working with others)
** can start with above and work to improve, iterating over time
** will need to bring in outside, professional resources to train staff
/ contributors
** We briefly talked about the upcoming new contributor survey and
reviewed the demographic information being asked for. Agreed that it was
a good start towards understanding current state of diversity across the
org.

* Safari books (Jennie):
** this is a really important resource to make easily available to non-staff
** value both in terms of the technical information it provides but also
as a tool for recognition
** should map escalating access to contributor lifecycle (e.g. greater
access as contrib move through lifecycle)
** Dino is at times overwhelmed by requests. Christie offered to be a
backup to help with this.

== Action Items ==

* Dino: Draft proposal for how to meet with diversity groups when they
are visiting Mozilla in March.
* Christie: Clean up meeting notes and send to group.
* Christie: Schedule next meeting.
* Christie: Review roadmap developed in December CBT meeting, identify
priority items to address this quarter and organize for discussion at
next meeting.


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Christie Koehler
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