On Missing our #teachtheweb goal

By 2017, Mozilla will have established itself as the best place to learn the skills and know-how people need to use the web in their lives, careers and organizations. We will have:

• Educated and empowered users by creating tools and curriculum for learning how to read, write and participate on the web. Gone mainstream.
• Built leaders, everywhere by growing a global cadre of educators, researchers, coders, etc. who do this work with us. We’ve helped them lead and innovate.
• Established the community as the classroom by improving and explaining our experiential learning model: learn by doing and innovating with Mozilla.

At the end of these three years, we may have established something like a “Mozilla University” — a learning side of Mozilla that can sustain us for many decades. Or, we may simply have a number of successful learning programs. Either way, we’ll be having impact.

This was written in 2015. We did not miss this goal by just a tiny bit. Instead three years laster Mozilla decided to end all on the ground support for learning programs.