On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Jan Jongboom <[email protected]> wrote: > First: this is an e-mail on personal title. Does not reflect Telenor's > opinion. > > I started as a fulltime contributor on Firefox OS more than two years ago, > and from the moment that it started it was great working together with the > people from MozCorp, volunteers and other partners. F.e. we did a joint work > week with Telefonica to get up to speed (before the Madrid one), hosted the > Firefox OS work week in Oslo, and joined in during the summit. Together with > the evangelism team we created training materials, wrote some blog posts, > etc. Really pleasurable experience. > > However, lately I feel like a second class citizen within Mozilla. When the > Firefox OS shutdown / reboot / ideation process begun no-one told me. When we > wanted to participate in the ideation it felt like we were not allowed. > Discussions happened on platforms where you could only join in with a MozCorp > e-mail address. Three months later the solution is then formed, and dumped > upon us (the partners). To me, this seems crazy, not only do the partners > have actual people working fulltime on the Mozilla codebase, they are also > module owners, plus they should have an actual idea on what is needed to make > Firefox OS a success (at least the engineers). In the past months I have been > to Bangladesh, worked with local community, and I think I have a pretty good > idea on why we're not selling enough. > > Now there is also the work week in Whistler approaching, and I figured it > would be a great way to align with the people who work on Gaia, talk a bit > about how Moz thinks about IoT, and also have some of our new hires work > together with the WebRTC team (as we hired 2 people now for that). History > has shown that just being together for a week clears the air and aligns > people (at least in my memory). Plus, there is no normal Firefox OS work week > anymore so I haven't seen a lot of devs that I work with on a day-to-day > basis in like a year (!). Getting the invitation for the work week has been > *incredibly* hard, and I really get the feeling Mozilla doesn't want any > non-MozCorp people there (we'd pay for flight/hotel ourselves anyway). We > finally got an 'okish' answer, but: "They won't be permitted to attend our > Friday party or the Wednesday dinner and other evenings" > > For me this boils down to: if you really really really have to, you can come, > but you cannot come to the all-hands, to any meetings, anything Mozilla pays > for, and you can also not come to any of the social events. Or as a co-worker > of mine stated it: "to me this sounds like spending a bunch of money in order > to be awkwardly excluded." > > Mozilla is a community, and MozCorp staff shouldn't be more special in that > community than partners or other volunteers, and I lately get that feeling > unfortunately. > > (Disclaimer: this doesn't apply to the engineers. Feedback loops and reviews > in bugzilla don't suffer from this problem, seems faster than ever actually, > and it also doesn't mean that I'll stop working on Mozilla code, but this has > been boiling inside me for a while) > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
I would encourage you to talk to Andreas about this. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
