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Open Canvas for Project Strategy

Tooling for Project Design

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Open Leaders design, build, and empower their projects and communities for understanding, sharing, and participation and inclusion

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https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-framework/

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Open Canvas

Tool from Mozilla’s Open Leadership Framework, adapted from the Lean Canvas

A way of

  • Clarifying the project idea
  • Encouraging to think strategically about project goals, plans, and needed resources

Special assumptions in Open Canvas about the project

  • Community-based
  • Fueled by significant contributions from volunteers, one of the key principles of working open.

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Open Canvas Walkthrough

open seeds

mentoring & training program

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Planning how you’ll build the community is as important as planning how you’ll build the product.

Product

Community

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1. Problem

The top 1-3 problems you want to solve

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2. Solution

Your proposed solution for each problem

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3. Key Metrics

How will you measure success?

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4. Resources Required

What do you need to build an MVP (minimum viable product)? Design, Dev, Experts, Hardware & costs

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5. Contributor Profiles

Contribution types and ideal contributors.

What do your contributors look like?

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Project Execution

Your contributor profiles should fulfill the needs required to build your product

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6. User Profiles

Target audience and early adopters. Who are you building this for? Who will your early adopters be?

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7. Contributor Channels

How will you gain new contributors?

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8. User Channels

How will you gain new users?

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Community Engagement

Contributors are often a subset of users

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9. Unique Value Proposition

Clear message that states what you offer �and why you are different.

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9. Unique Value Proposition

You are your own unique value!

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Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Open Canvas helps to identify needs and resources that are critical to create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

MVP

  • Concept comes from the start-up world
  • Always best to build a MVP first to test out the project and ensure the idea works before expanding it

Project not fitting into the Open Canvas model? Iit may be that you’re trying to do too much, and need to narrow your scope.

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Now try to fill the Open Canvas for your project using the shared template

open seeds

mentoring & training program