Mozilla Community Space Taipei Status Report, May 2014 - Feb 2017
“摩茲工寮, Mozilla Community Space Taipei” is an event/meeting/working space and shelter to the local Mozillians, Mozilla volunteers, and OSS communities.
It is the first of three spaces besides Manila Space & Jakarta Space. The spaces are leading by Mozilla Open Innovation Group's “community spaces” project, managing by local MozTW volunteers.
Here I will share about 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 had contributing by localizing, promoting Firefox, Mozilla and open cultures to Mozilla and open source projects since 2004.
MozTW maintained an online product portal and forum, hosting many offline events and engaging with other Asia Mozillians and open source hackers.
History of Space
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 has been transitioned to Open Innovation Group with the help by George Roter and Konstantina.
Keyholders
MozTW Space is co-managing by “Keyholder,” 15 local Mozilla volunteers. Keyholders are all vouched Mozillians, and has same privilege. People need to be countersigned by more than 50% of Mozillian visitors (in 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 last three years, we managed to open the space 20~25 days per month in average. (mostly the night time)
Besides Mozilla events, we also welcome and support all open culture and programming communities to hosting their events in the MozTW Space. Totally there are more than 8000 visitors and 760 events since May 2014.
Some of the most closing cooperate communitiess including G0V, OSM, Wikimedia Taiwan, Creative Commons Taiwan, Open Culture Foundation, SITCON (Students Information Technology Conference) and WoFOSS (Women in Free and Open Source Software in Taiwan).
One of the primary goals is to introduce Mozilla and our belief to new friends. In last six month (Sep-Feb), more than 410 visitors had learned about Mozilla on their first visit to the Space (out of 1800 visitors in 167 events).
We introduce Mozilla, Manifesto, our different projects, topics around internet health and policy, and new technologies we're building.
Dev-rel
Since Dec 2015, we put emphasis on developer relationship. There are 168 developer events, and we introduce Rust, Servo, HTML5, WebAPI and developer tools to more than 4000 local programmers.
Social Engagement
On social engagement, we had received 2550 Check-ins and 1100 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 to promoting openness.
And we issue Open Badges...
… to the visitors around the world - including Mark Surman, Brian King, Larissa Shapiro, William Quiviger, Dietrich Ayala, Max Ogden, Fa-ti Fan, 田爱娜 and many more.
MozTW Lab
One of the best events 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 seven years, and there are 77 lightning talk sessions recorded/live broadcasted through Vidyo from Space since 2014.
Photos
Here are some photo highlights of the space,
More
- Read more about the community spaces in 2016 in about:community blog
- Check the Flickr album and FB page for more photos
- Contact us on space at moztw.org
- See if there is any event / opening on space calendar
- And plan the route to the space
Looking forward to your visit!
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