One of the Participation team’s Q2 Goals is to build agile and open processes to increase our effectiveness. We’ve chosen to learn from the Webmaker/Foundation team and implement a heartbeat process.
Roughly, this means working in 3-week “sprints” or “heartbeats” that allow us to break down our Q2 goals into manageable pieces, and work on them transparently.
Our Q2 Heartbeat #1 Projects are detailed in this series of Google Docs.
We know that browsing through a Google drive is neither user friendly, conducive to participation, or really working in the open. Our aim is to fix that by the second heartbeat (starting May 11th): In Heartbeat #1, one of the projects is to “Establish a solid Heartbeat process for Participation that is lightweight, structured, focused and sets us up for success”.
We’d value any input into this heartbeat process.
Also, if you’re interested in getting involved with or learning more about any of the Heartbeat #1 projects, here’s a (long) list of the projects and drivers:
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Bangladesh meetup - @kinger
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Publish Surveys - Result: Basic ‘State of Communities’ summary + listing of ways to better support moving forward - @kinger
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Design hypothesis 1 in One and Done - @djst
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Establish a solid Heartbeat process for Participation that is lightweight, structured, focused and sets us up for success - @djst
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Learn about types of support to best deliver impact on events - @kinger
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Create a list of external experts and invite to conversations about radical participation - @lucyeoh
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Firefox Northern Spring Campaign - @djst
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Experimental approach to community building in Senegal and Tunisia to support Fx OS launch - @williamq
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Support India Task Force meetup with skill-building workshops - @rosana
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Work with India community to build a proposal/plan for a new marketing approach for Android - @george
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Marketpulse v2 - @williamq
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Setting up agile methodology and tools for rapid deployment of participation experiments and community involvement - @pierros
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Enlist distributed experiments into the Participation Lab where we can track and support their progress - @lucyeoh
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Develop “working” framework and 5 hypothesis of substantive changes for the Reps program - @rosana
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Support external/internal communication efforts from FxOS changes + participation ideas, and capture lessons from this approach - @lucyeoh
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Finalise list of volunteers and followup to ensure everyone registered and booked travel - @franc