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5 Years of Mozilla Community Space Taipei - A Brief Status
May 2014 - 2019
(This is the updated version to this report from 2017) Download the full slide here.
Mozilla Community Space Taipei ”摩茲工寮” is an event / meeting / co-working space and shelter to the local Mozillians, Mozilla volunteers, and OSS communities.
It is the first of this kinds of Mozilla space run by community (and another one is Jakarta Space). These spaces are leading by Mozilla Open Innovation Team, managing by local MozTW Mozillian volunteers.
Here I will share some brief status of the Taipei Space.
(I’ll use “MozTW Space” or “Space” as the abbreviation to “Mozilla Community Space Taipei” below.)
MozTW Community
Mozilla Taiwan Community (MozTW) is a local Mozilla volunteer community. We are contributing localizing, promoting Firefox, Mozilla, and open cultures to Mozilla and open source projects since 2004.
The Community Space was an idea initially raised by William Quiviger in 2013, and sponsored by WPR team. We started the first experimental space in Taipei spring 2014.
After April 2016, the space project had transitioned to Participation Team, supported by Brian King. In February 2017, it was continuous with Open Innovation Group with the help of George Roter and Konstantina until now.
Keyholders
MozTW Space is co-managing by “Keyholders,” 18 local Mozilla volunteers.
Keyholders are all vouched Mozillians and have the same privilege. People need to be countersigned by more than 50% of Mozillian visitors (in the last three months) when they applied for the position.
The threshold represents the community’s support to the applicant.
Visitors & Events
Everyone is welcome to visiting MozTW space when there is any Keyholder inside. However, it’s not opening 24 hours / 7 days a week due to the volunteers’ ability. In the last five years, we managed to open the space 22 days per month on average. (Part of the weeknight and most day time of weekend)
Besides Mozilla events, we also welcome and support all open culture communities to hosting their activities in the MozTW Space. Totally there are more than 16000 visitors and 1256 events/meetups since soft-opening of May 2014.
The communities that hosted the events at space came from a very diverse domain, includes open source projects, programming, AI, blockchain, policy advocacy, civil society hackers, CS education, open culture, open data, D&I, infused, makers & designers.
One of the primary goals is to introduce Mozilla and our value to new friends. In last year (June 2018-May 2019), more than 780 new visitors had learned about Mozilla on their first visit to space (out of 3500 visitors in 356 events).
We introduce Mozilla, Manifesto, different projects, topics around internet health and policy, and new technologies we’re building to them.
Social Engagement
On social engagement, we had received 3850 Check-ins and 1600 Likes on Facebook and Foursquare. And in fact, we didn’t “ask” people to do it. These social channels had become a good way for us in promoting openness.
One of the scheduled events of all time is “MozTW Lab,” Mozillian weekly meetup on each Friday night. Volunteers get together to socialize, work, and give lightning talks on various topics including Mozilla’s latest update.
This meetup had been running for ten years, and there are 250 lightning talk sessions recorded/live through Vidyo/YouTube from Space since 2014.
Photos
Here are some photo highlights of the space, you can find more on Flickr.
Due to the end of the leasing contract and the substitution of the landlord, the MozTW Space is going to move before mid-July, and we’re looking for the next good venue.
找房條件 Criteria
40 坪：一半聚會空間，一半開放文化基金會辦公室 130 sqm, half for meeting space, half Open Culture Foundation office
忠孝新生、光華商場周遭最佳（交通方便、使用率高較划算，如果其他地方有理想單位也可考慮） Best near Gunghwa electronic market, BL14/O7 Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station
地上樓層，有自然採光 Upper-ground level with natural lights
預算 ~ 43210 /月 Monthly rent budget ~ USD 1350
敬請協助提供物件資訊、或相關合作資料。Please help provides info about suitable venues or potential collaboration chances.
Open Culture Foundation (OCF) is a nonprofit organization co-founded in 2014 by several members of Taiwan’s open source community. Its main goal is to support local communities and to advocate the use of open technologies in broader sectors.
We currently co-rent and sharing the current 2-floor community space venue.
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I’m Irvin, volunteer and rep mentor, from East Asia, Taipei, Taiwan.
I’d join Rep since spring 2013, the very beginning of the program. I’d been Mozilla volunteers even longer, as early as 2004, since my first year in college.
We all feel that the internet is so important to keep healthy, and Mozilla plays a significant role. We all want Mozilla to be strong and great. We dedicate our time for it, and Rep program can help us to do our best.
That’s why I’d like to run for Rep council.
There are no perfect projects, and I believe sometimes you also feel as difficult as I do on rep program, and on Mozilla. I feel less motivated, unclear directions, helpless issues, and we’re losing so many people, recently.
I believe that, we can fix the problem, by making Rep not only Representative of Mozilla, but also the representative of Mozillians.
My first proposal, is to start a quarterly periodic survey for Rep, to understanding our ideas of Rep program, and our feelings of Mozilla projects.
As the core contributors, we can be the funnel for Mozilla to understanding our volunteer, more and deeply. We can become the bridge between the volunteers and paid-staff.
We can help volunteers to be heard and understood, we can start a more frequent communication, help engage each other, reduce problems, and strengthen the whole community.
Please vote for me on Rep council elections. If you have any questions, please ping me on Telegram Mozillians and Rep channel, or directly reply to the video.
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…I can post far more on Discourse if you allowed me to.
