Community Tech Speakers

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Dietrich was kind enough to describe the Mozilla Tech Speakers program he created and ran, where the people around the world already promoting Mozilla/ Firefox / etc got support to give talks.

Calling it Ecosystem Activity Uplift Program here:

This would need funding to run such a thing, although we could maybe prototype parts of it with the Community Fund.

As input, one of the things we need is lists of events next year. I think I’ll start by making a wiki page here to get things started so we have somewhere to put things.

One of things that I committed to coming out of EuroSky was pulling together resources for a developer audience, which is another thing needed for this sort of thing too.

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The Tech Speakers Program was super awesome! I ran AV for some of those events and it was pretty cool. There was a very large variety of topics - from low level developer topics to larger scale community events. It’s a good model, the program was mobilizing a lot of people and getting word out to many disparate communities. Sometimes the experience is that you’d go to a tech speaker talk and have the reaction “I didn’t even know people were working on that. Cool that I’m getting to see the talk from the people who invested time/worked on it!”

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Awesome, this is great feedback to hear from on the ground.