El 11/09/12 22:13, David Bruant escribió:
At MozCampEU 2012, I think during Leadership Panel, Brian King
mentionned that Mozilla (I would guess MoFo&MoCo) and the community
sometimes have unaligned priorities. After being asked, he gave 2
examples; one being that the community still maintains SeaMonkey which
is not a priority for MoFo/MoCo and I have forgotten the second one
(please complete if anyone remembers), but I remember it was another
valid example.
He added that he is no one to tell anyone not to contribute to SeaMonkey
and I certainly agree, but wish to provide some in-depth thoughts on
this topic.
I agree that we should align on goals and priorities, and most of the
times volunteers communities don't have enough human resources to work
on everything, and I see logical that we encourage them to focus on
defined priorities.
This doesn't mean that if a group have tons of contributors, they can do
more things which are not P1 for the rest.
I think there would be value in having dedicated volunteer contributors
taking part in organisation-wide strategic decisions. If we, volunteers
and paid employees, all take part in deciding Mozilla priorities, we
will have our priorities aligned as a consequence of the decision process.
Now I understand that business requirements make that all informations
to make educated decisions about Mozilla at the organization level are
not available to the general public.
One idea would be to invite some volunteers to take part of these
decisions and having them sign an NDA.
All details of this idea aren't figured out (especially how to choose
who's invited to the discussions), but I'm starting this thread as an
attempt to propose a solution to the problem of unaligned priorities.
Yes, that's one of the things that are expected and there are ongoing
discussions about how to integrate core contributors into
decision-making/governance groups in Mozilla, for example the Reps
Council. (Remember that reps have signed a NDA)
Regards.
--
Rubén Martín [Nukeador]
Mozilla Reps Council Member
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