This week marks 1 year of radical participation in Mozilla India towards MLS contributions.
We've started and sustained activities to make India more and more visible on the Mozilla Location Service's map & now it's one of the brightest region for MLS, globally (especially Kerala - you guys deserve cookies... and nutella... and more battery packs).
Incidentally, the current contributor base consists of so many enthusiastic and active Mozillians, willing to step up & take up responsibilities to manage the activities, that it's really incredible!
Hence, a Task Force has already been proposed & would be discussed in the Community India meetup this weekend.
Once set up, the team can handle all the communications, activities & strategies. We'll have a mailing address set up (as necessary; something sort of geolocation@mozillaindia.org) to handle all the communications. Many active #MozGeo scouts has already connection/visibility with the corp-team; they can totally have a full-duplex relationship, for all strategic advances.
Luckily enough, implementing a meritocratic model for all #MozGeo activities is a piece of cake - thanks to the cool gamification (can be even better - but whoever initiated to go on this way of having gamified-metrics tracking from the ground up - did it damn right)!
We have a list of active MLS contributors from the last two location sprints. Almost all the top ones are still active, and more than half of them are still leading with heavy 6-digit stats - even though there's no location sprint out there right now. This is insane!
So, I've made this small form to capture the interest & current stats of the Mozillians, willing to be a part of Mozilla India Geolocation Task Force. I'd suggest we go with taking in all the Mozillians with 100000+ scores on the leaderboard (or, the top 9-10 - or, whichever threshold is met first).
So far, the contributors were all called #mozGeo scouts, but I'm oh-so-very inclined to use the term "Rangers" for the top contributors (everyone with 10^5+ points on the leaderboard - so far, about 521 rangers globally). It's a personal preference - by no means official. You don't have to use the term "Mozilla Geolocation Rangers" (unless, of course, you really want to!) ;) :P
The way I see it, what was my personal goals against Mozilla Geolocation efforts in India a year back, are splendidly met & I want to step back from the core-activities with that satisfaction. I've just archived MLS from my active projects list.
Although, as I've mentioned, the gamification around the contribution can be made better & more fun. I'll try to invest some more time into make that happen, going forward.
We've started and sustained activities to make India more and more visible on the Mozilla Location Service's map & now it's one of the brightest region for MLS, globally (especially Kerala - you guys deserve cookies... and nutella... and more battery packs).
The current state
Over the past one year, I've been somewhat the goto-guy regarding the MLS activities in India. Which is awesome, but having that teeny-tiny community now grown so big, I can't (and more importantly, shouldn't) keep track of it, effectively.Incidentally, the current contributor base consists of so many enthusiastic and active Mozillians, willing to step up & take up responsibilities to manage the activities, that it's really incredible!
What's next up
As a next step, we should be forming a group of Mozillians, focused for MLS activities in India, and make that group as the goto-group (instead of a person being the goto-person).Hence, a Task Force has already been proposed & would be discussed in the Community India meetup this weekend.
Once set up, the team can handle all the communications, activities & strategies. We'll have a mailing address set up (as necessary; something sort of geolocation@mozillaindia.org) to handle all the communications. Many active #MozGeo scouts has already connection/visibility with the corp-team; they can totally have a full-duplex relationship, for all strategic advances.
Membership Criteria
So, the big question: who's going to be the part of the Geolocation Task Force?Luckily enough, implementing a meritocratic model for all #MozGeo activities is a piece of cake - thanks to the cool gamification (can be even better - but whoever initiated to go on this way of having gamified-metrics tracking from the ground up - did it damn right)!
We have a list of active MLS contributors from the last two location sprints. Almost all the top ones are still active, and more than half of them are still leading with heavy 6-digit stats - even though there's no location sprint out there right now. This is insane!
So, I've made this small form to capture the interest & current stats of the Mozillians, willing to be a part of Mozilla India Geolocation Task Force. I'd suggest we go with taking in all the Mozillians with 100000+ scores on the leaderboard (or, the top 9-10 - or, whichever threshold is met first).
So far, the contributors were all called #mozGeo scouts, but I'm oh-so-very inclined to use the term "Rangers" for the top contributors (everyone with 10^5+ points on the leaderboard - so far, about 521 rangers globally). It's a personal preference - by no means official. You don't have to use the term "Mozilla Geolocation Rangers" (unless, of course, you really want to!) ;) :P
So, what will "I" do now?
As a cloud-services project, Geolocation Task Force is best to be a part of the Technical Task Force. Hence I'll have a close connection with the team, in all senses. But being an inactive scout, I shouldn't be one of the people to be among the Task Force members. We can use that spot to add one more Mozillian.The way I see it, what was my personal goals against Mozilla Geolocation efforts in India a year back, are splendidly met & I want to step back from the core-activities with that satisfaction. I've just archived MLS from my active projects list.
Although, as I've mentioned, the gamification around the contribution can be made better & more fun. I'll try to invest some more time into make that happen, going forward.
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