Yesterday, as some of you witnessed, I stood up to talk a little bit about the Summit (like out loud, in front of other humans).\u00a0 To most people, something like that might not seem like a big deal — to me, huge.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m terrified to speak in public and prefer to stay behind the scenes (all this despite a career in communications!)<\/p>\n
Enough about me.<\/p>\n
As a bit of a recap, last week the volunteer \u201clottery\u201d (whereby 10% of our volunteers were selected by random drawing to attend the Summit at a site different from the one they were originally offered) concluded and the results have been shared back.\u00a0 Not without it\u2019s hiccups, it feels like we\u2019re getting close to final with this group.<\/p>\n
Next up, Mozilla staff.\u00a0 The process for staff will be a little different from our volunteers and will kick off this week.\u00a0 The ultimate goal is to have an equal number of Mozillians in each of the three sites (~650 each), with a good functional mix (about \u00bd volunteers, \u00bd staff).\u00a0\u00a0 To do that, we\u2019ll allocate each functional group an equal number of invitations to each of the Summit venues.\u00a0 Teams will use a system that works best for them depending on size and geo-location among other factors.\u00a0 We will do what we can to share these decisions with the volunteer invitees so they can connect with those traveling with them.\u00a0 This process should wrap close to the end of June.<\/p>\n
We have also kicked off the Summit branding work this week with a flurry of activity.\u00a0 We have some preliminary ideas for a visual identity (sort of like a decorating theme) that our internal creative brain trust is working to refine.\u00a0 Over the next few weeks, this team will partner to develop the overall Summit experience through a variety of elements, including the event Website and registration system (which we have targeted to go live July 15th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n And finally, the Summit Planning Assembly is less that a week away.\u00a0 For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, this event will bring together ~70 Mozillian delegates from around the globe for three days of collaborative content building.\u00a0 Using “unconference<\/a>” methodologies (loosely structured and participant lead), the outcomes produced by this group at this event, will form the basis for the Summit agenda\/content.<\/p>\n While this event will not be streamed, we have dedicated documenters who will capture the process, feedback, and outcomes for the greater community.<\/p>\n Whew.\u00a0 Enough from me for now.\u00a0 As always, if you have questions please ping us in IRC #summit2013 or email summit2013@mozilla.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, as some of you witnessed, I stood up to talk a little bit about the Summit (like out loud, in front of other humans).\u00a0 To most people, something like … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31740],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}