Mozilla Foundation Report for 2009 Week 5
The end of January was another busy week with a lot of long (but good) days.
I spent most of my time developing an experimental program to build a popular movement around the Mozilla values, recording test videos to support the program, testing program ideas on friends, colleagues and peers, and recruiting early participants in the program. Writing a simple and engaging description for the program turned out to be a challenge. I’d draft a description, test it on whoever was nearby and collect a lot of blank stares for my trouble. After a few frustrating and time-consuming rounds of this, I took a break from writing to clear my head and catch up on the other activities from my Q1 statement of work.
I started research on other social movements, only to find that Wikipedians had already done a lot of the more detail-oriented research for us. I need to go donate to Wikipedia to show my thanks. I wrote few blog posts, restarting my now stale thread on what motivates me to participate in Mozilla and writing another post on my Twitter use within Mozilla. I caught up with Nicholas Reville and Tiffiniy Chen from the Participatory Culture Foundation, looking for areas where we can work together. (If you are a Miro user, check out the Miro 2 nightlies – they are pretty sweet.)
Taking a break worked – on Thursday, I finally managed to work up a decent call to action for the popular movement program experiment.
I also managed to continue to stay on top of Planet Mozilla and the Mozilla wiki changelogs – it is a pain in the aggregator, but is totally worth it. I did a bit of light work to help us get ready for FOSDEM and OSCON and was happy to make connections between various people in the Mozilla and broad electronic frontier community – the more that I pay attention to what is going on in the Mozillaverse, the more happy congruences I can see waiting to happen. Twitter and Identi.ca continue to be a good use of my time, making it easier for me to participate in Mozilla.
Finally, over the weekend, I coordinated the work of early participants in the program, worked on additional videos and wrote a few additional blog posts.
All in all, it was 60+ hours of work, but most of it was – as the kids say – win.
Posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 21:42
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