{"id":4150,"date":"2010-04-20T15:02:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2010-04-20T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:02:46","slug":"part-i-open-ideation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/04\/part-i-open-ideation\/","title":{"rendered":"Part I: Open Ideation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined Mozilla Labs recently to lead the team\u2019s product marketing initiatives.\u00a0 By coincidence, in my first team meeting we discussed what it meant to be \u201copen\u201d.\u00a0 This led to a broader debate about how Labs is and should live up to its fundamental principles: openness, innovation, transparency, community participation and accelerated product development.<\/p>\n<p>As one of my first projects, I&#8217;m evaluating areas where Mozilla Labs can further live up to its brand and ensure that it is doing its part to push the boundaries of the web experience.\u00a0 To avoid developing this in a black hole, I wanted to open up the conversation to get your ideas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To kick it off, let&#8217;s explore the concept of open ideation.\u00a0 By \u201copen ideation\u201d, I mean providing a place for the community to post and present their ideas.\u00a0 The goal is for the community to discuss and identify the ideas which should be developed into prototypes and, based on results, potentially be incorporated into Firefox and\/or the web browsing platform.\u00a0 But what is the most effective way for Mozilla Labs to accomplish this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can Mozilla Labs promote open      ideation but still be able to  drill down to a subset of ideas which will continue      onto the  prototype phase?\u00a0 What should be the criteria and\/or      mechanism  deployed for funneling the ideas?<\/li>\n<li>If you posted your idea to Mozilla      Labs what kind of feedback would be useful to you?<\/li>\n<li>How much guidance would you want      Mozilla Labs to provide around what ideas to discuss e.g., no guidance,      general themes, specific questions, etc.?<\/li>\n<li>Are there particular topics that you      want to see Mozilla Labs discussing\/blogging about more?<\/li>\n<li>What are examples of organizations      that are doing a great job in promoting and deploying open      ideation with the broader community?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look forward to your insights &#8211; leave your comments either on this blog or head over to our <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla-labs\">discussion group<\/a>. Over the next few weeks, I&#8217;ll be posting a series of blog posts which address the areas needing the most input to further evolve Mozilla Labs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mayumi on behalf of the Mozilla Labs team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined Mozilla Labs recently to lead the team\u2019s product marketing initiatives.\u00a0 By coincidence, in my first team meeting we discussed what it meant to be \u201copen\u201d.\u00a0 This led to a broader debate about how Labs is and should live &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/04\/part-i-open-ideation\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}