Six years ago I started in Mozilla community as a Student Ambassador. From day 1 I fell in love with Mozilla and decided to spread this love to anyone and everyone. I made 'building a community' my only mission.
From hosting coffee shop meetups to a hundred member community meetup, from booth sessions to hosting some of the biggest hackathons, speaking at conferences to spending time 1-1 with community each day. Keeping the conversation flowing in all available channels. 3.00 AM phone calls are normal. It has been a experience, enjoyed every part of it.
Past couple of months have been intense from scaling the level of engagement across the growing community. Helping with Firefox OS launch to various campaigns.
Reading Chris's post gave some clarity on my present status, he said "I feel the first signs of burnout and I think it is very important to not let a fast and seemingly glamourous lifestyle on the road as an official spokesperson get in the way of finding peace and tranquility."
"This is why I am taking a break from Mozilla. I am going on a sabbatical for a while and be a spectator watching the rewards of all the work we put in the last years."
After community India being successful in Firefox OS launch to celebrating Firefox 10th anniversary, to be a driving force in Webmaker Maker Party, things are going awesome.
From a handful of community to 100+ strong active community and hundreds of thousands of supporters, engaging, teaching and spreading the word of Open Web to millions, we have come far. With the solid structure of task forces, having distributed focus on project areas, transparent communication channels, both regional and local and most importantly having things grow from grass-root level, community India perfectly reflects 'many voices, one mozilla'. We at community India have set the bar high on what a group of passionate people can do.
I think it is perfect time for me to take a break. I am stepping down from my volunteer responsibilities in Pan-India level. I'll remain as a individual contributor with a focus on other areas at Mozilla, "and be a spectator watching the rewards of all the work we put in the last years."
I'm happy and proud with the community direction. Thanks to each and everyone of you amazing people for your support and trust without which we could not have come this far. And NO, I'm not leaving Mozilla. I'll just take a break from pan-India community responsibilities, I'm positive with the amazing team we have, things will continue to move further. I'll be active locally and focus on other areas with-in Mozilla(you may hear soon more on this). While I take the break, I'll be in a 'advisory role' (less execution, more on strategy/vision). I'll be available for the community for any kind of support, but this would be case by case and you may not expect full involvement from me for the time being. You will see me at events and meetups, come say hello.
Let Go. Onward..
From hosting coffee shop meetups to a hundred member community meetup, from booth sessions to hosting some of the biggest hackathons, speaking at conferences to spending time 1-1 with community each day. Keeping the conversation flowing in all available channels. 3.00 AM phone calls are normal. It has been a experience, enjoyed every part of it.
Past couple of months have been intense from scaling the level of engagement across the growing community. Helping with Firefox OS launch to various campaigns.
Reading Chris's post gave some clarity on my present status, he said "I feel the first signs of burnout and I think it is very important to not let a fast and seemingly glamourous lifestyle on the road as an official spokesperson get in the way of finding peace and tranquility."
"This is why I am taking a break from Mozilla. I am going on a sabbatical for a while and be a spectator watching the rewards of all the work we put in the last years."
After community India being successful in Firefox OS launch to celebrating Firefox 10th anniversary, to be a driving force in Webmaker Maker Party, things are going awesome.
From a handful of community to 100+ strong active community and hundreds of thousands of supporters, engaging, teaching and spreading the word of Open Web to millions, we have come far. With the solid structure of task forces, having distributed focus on project areas, transparent communication channels, both regional and local and most importantly having things grow from grass-root level, community India perfectly reflects 'many voices, one mozilla'. We at community India have set the bar high on what a group of passionate people can do.
I think it is perfect time for me to take a break. I am stepping down from my volunteer responsibilities in Pan-India level. I'll remain as a individual contributor with a focus on other areas at Mozilla, "and be a spectator watching the rewards of all the work we put in the last years."
I'm happy and proud with the community direction. Thanks to each and everyone of you amazing people for your support and trust without which we could not have come this far. And NO, I'm not leaving Mozilla. I'll just take a break from pan-India community responsibilities, I'm positive with the amazing team we have, things will continue to move further. I'll be active locally and focus on other areas with-in Mozilla(you may hear soon more on this). While I take the break, I'll be in a 'advisory role' (less execution, more on strategy/vision). I'll be available for the community for any kind of support, but this would be case by case and you may not expect full involvement from me for the time being. You will see me at events and meetups, come say hello.
Let Go. Onward..
