{"id":460,"date":"2016-10-03T12:13:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/?p=460"},"modified":"2016-10-03T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:33:51","slug":"introducing-regional-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/2016\/10\/03\/introducing-regional-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Regional Coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a way to<strong> amplify the Participation&#8217;s team <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla-community.org\/t\/investing-in-communities-with-a-clear-focus\/10766\/\">focused support<\/a> to communities,<\/strong> we have created a project called Regional Coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Reps Regional coaches project aims to bring support to all Mozilla local communities around the world thanks to a group of excellent core contributors who will be talking with these communities and <strong>coordinating with the Reps program and the Participation team<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We divided the world into 10 regions, and selected 2 regional coaches to take care of the countries in these regions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Region 1:<\/strong> USA, Canada<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 2:<\/strong> Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Cuba<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 3:<\/strong> Ireland, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 4:<\/strong> Hungary, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Russia, Israel<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 5:<\/strong> Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Palestine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, Morocco<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 6:<\/strong> Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 7:<\/strong> Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Botswana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 8:<\/strong> China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Japan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 9:<\/strong> India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region 10:<\/strong> Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These regional coaches are not a power structure nor a decision maker, they are there to listen to the communities and establish a 2-way communication to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop a clear view of local communities status, problems, needs.<\/li>\n<li>Help local communities surface any issues or concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Provide guidance\/coaching on Mozilla\u2019s goals to local communities.<\/li>\n<li>Run regular check-ins with communities and volunteers in the region.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate with the rest of regional coaches on a common protocol, best practices.<\/li>\n<li>Be a bridge between communities in the same region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We want communities to be <strong>better integrated with the rest of the org<\/strong>, not just to be aligned with the current organizational needs but also to allow them to be more <strong>involved in shaping the strategy and vision for Mozilla<\/strong> and work together with staff as a team, as One Mozilla.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to <strong>ask all Reps and mozillians to support our Regional Coaches<\/strong>, helping them to meet communities and work with them. <strong>This project is key for bringing support to everyone<\/strong>, amplifying the strategy, vision and work that we have been doing from the Reps program and the Participation team.<\/p>\n<h3>Current status<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/files\/2016\/10\/regional-coaches.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-461\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/files\/2016\/10\/regional-coaches-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"regional-coaches\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/files\/2016\/10\/regional-coaches-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/files\/2016\/10\/regional-coaches-252x141.jpg 252w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/files\/2016\/10\/regional-coaches-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mozillareps\/files\/2016\/10\/regional-coaches.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>We <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla-community.org\/t\/new-reps-regional-coaches-august-2016\/10104\">have on-boarded 18 regional coaches<\/a> to bring support to 87 countries (wow!) around the world. Currently they have started to contact local communities and hold video meetings with all of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have we learned so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mozilla communities are very diverse<\/strong>, and their structure and activity status is very different. Also, there is a need for alignment with the current projects and focus activities around Mozilla and work to encourage mozillians to get involved in shaping the future.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>region 1<\/strong>, there are no big formal communities and mozillians are working as individuals or city-level groups. The challenge here is to <strong>get everyone together<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>region 2<\/strong> there are a lot of communities, some of them currently re-inventing themselves to align better with focus initiatives. There is a huge potential here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Region 3<\/strong> is where the oldest communities started, and there is big difference between the old and the emerging ones. The challenge is to <strong>get the old ones to the same level of diverse activity<\/strong> and alignment as the new ones.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>region 4<\/strong> the challenge is to re-activate or <strong>start communities in small countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Region 5<\/strong> has been active for a long time, focused mainly in localization. How to<strong> align with new emerging focus areas<\/strong> is the main challenge here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Region 6 and 7<\/strong> are also very diverse, huge potential, a lot of energy. <strong>Getting mozillians supercharged again<\/strong> after Firefox OS era is the big challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Region 8<\/strong> has some big and active communities (like Bangladesh and Taiwan) and a lot of individuals working as small groups in other countries. The challenge is to <strong>bring alignment and get the groups together<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>region 9<\/strong> the challenge is to bring the huge activity and re-organization Indian communities are doing to nearby countries. Specially the ones who are <strong>not fully aligned with the new environment<\/strong> Mozilla is in today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Region 10<\/strong> has a couple of big active communities. The challenge is how to <strong>expand this to other countries<\/strong> where Mozilla has never had community presence or communities are no longer active.<\/p>\n<p>Comments, feedback? We want to hear from you on <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla-community.org\/t\/amplifying-our-support-to-communities-with-reps-regional-coaches\/11254\">Mozilla&#8217;s discourse forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a way to amplify the Participation&#8217;s team focused support to communities, we have created a project called Regional Coaches. 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