Deb's Blog

Oct 25, 1730 : Finished co-facilitating session on Contribution Pathways. We had the entire audience broken down in 5 groups, rotating per 8 mins to each focus station (pathways, mentorship, governance, system & data, recognition). Sorry - no device policy - hence, no photos! Oct 25, 1500 : Lunch & catching up with communications. Codepo8 dropped by. Ohai! :D Oct 25, 1045 : Session on Community Diversity & Inclusion. It was great to facilitate with you, Beatrice, Rebecca, Alifiyah, Leo, Ibrahima et al. Oct 25, 0900 : At the venue, Gunner on the stage. Audience in that awesome MozFest formation. Oct 24, 2300 : Beer with the folks, and then a long walk beside Thames. We should go and sleep. BTW, great stories, Manel! Oct 24, 2100 : Reps' community dinner. I'M A CARNIVORE... AWE YEAH!!! Oct 24, 1800 : Science Fair is ON. It's my third time &I'm equally boggled just I was on my first time at MozFest. Some really cool folks with really cool

This blog was drafted on the aircraft back home from MozFest, on 28th October, 2013. It's a shame that it's been lying in the drafts for a year now. Publishing almost as is, many intended details missing. I'm sorry! :( To avoid it this year, I'm live blogging MozFest 2014 . Cheers! Flickr Slideshow : https://www.flickr.com/photos/debloper/sets/72157637170816103/show   0th Day Had a tour around Westminister & Buckingham with Faye, Sayak, San James et al. Took heck load of pics, chased pigeons, saw royal processing, wandered around the green park. A morning well spent. Next up was visiting the mozilla office; had mentors' call, debriefing about the festival. This is where the excitement begins. 1st Day So, the maker party begins with the kick off of the science fair - some interesting pieces of work, some great inspiration. Met an 11yo guy, who's interested about stop motion animation, has his own YouTube channel & been up to it for 3 years..

Note to self : Cut it to the chase. I've been a quite unorganized (which is gradually increasing) for last one year - followed by me stepping down from Mozilla Reps' Council & by now, I've completely overwhelmed myself. Being unorganized was experimentally self induced; in order to suppress my OCPD . It helped keep my traits of the disorder in check (quite successfully by now). However, it came at a cost, I need to repay. I am swamped with things I need to do. I have 50+ actionable tabs open in 5 tab groups. I have 70+ bugs pending actions. I have 100+ direct mails to get back to (a couple of thousands on lists). I have 5+ budget requests yet to be made (10+ unresolved backlog). I have 3 blogs drafted & 10+ blogs semi drafted awaiting to be published. Skipping the enormous number of yak-shaving aside or in parallel. ...and all these backlogs are only for Mozilla. Which would be (realistically) 33.333% of _all_ the things I need to get done. Today, I&#

Two of the Socratic paradoxes say: No one does something wrong willingly or knowingly. No one desires (to be) evil. More one thinks about it, more obvious it becomes how true these statements are. Everyone - invariably what (s)he does - has justification behind their those actions, and trusts that to be the best course of action in good faith (in fact, one gets into trauma, if the brain fails to justify their actions). But we do make mistakes. Lack of data/information/knowledge, lack of expertise, lack of maturity, lack of empathy, lack of responsibility, lack of thought process the action demands, lack of a constructive mood, lack of security, lack of foresight... and for the lack of more affecting parameters on hand, I'll just let the list end here. Having a setup of zero tolerance to mistakes circumvents achievement & innovation. Having a setup of very high tolerance of mistakes ends up becoming counter-productive. Balance is to identify mistakes & revive A