This is a great idea. Mitchell, a little while ago on the Mozillians list I proposed we create a historical wiki inspired by similar ideas. One part to remember great contributors that new people wouldn't get a chance to hear about otherwise, the other to remember cultural things like "cookies are delicious delicacies" or old projects.
The idea was well received. Deb Richardson has mozillapedia.x domains (Sorry don't recall which tlds). I've been slowly hacking away at a demo instance on my hosting, http://mozillapedia.steelgryphon.com - those of us working on it all have higher priority projects so it's not impressive yet. If you're interested I can give a more detailed update on where things are. Having pages for these emeritus contributors would be the perfect content to get it going and I think the wiki would be a great place to expose the community to these emeritus contributors. -Majken On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Axel Hecht <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07.11.12 16:05, Mitchell Baker wrote: > >> Over the years we've identified a few specific roles at Mozilla. These >> are described in the Roles and Responsibilities document >> (http://www.mozilla.org/about/**roles.html<http://www.mozilla.org/about/roles.html>). >> I'd like to update this >> document in general to reflect the Mozilla project today. That's a task >> that will take some work and you'll see from me about this in the coming >> months. >> >> For now, I'm proposing we add a new role or status. I'd like to be able >> to recognize people who have built something at Mozilla and then passed >> on their authority. This will give us a way to describe people after >> it is no longer accurate to say "I'm the module owner" or community >> leader or other activities. I'm thinking we'd attach a year to it. So >> someone would be something like "[Name of module or similar activity] >> Module Owner Emeritus, 2012.", The year would be the date the person >> passed on their leadership to someone else. I'm inclined start with the >> present, and work our way backwards in time. >> >> We cold make an Emeritus Roll, where we list people, including a link to >> the materials that show *how* and when they passed on their authority. >> This would allow others to learn, and allow us to point to the ones that >> seem the best learning examples as reference material. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Mitchell >> > > I like the idea, from both sides of having taken something (RDF owner), > and passing something along (XSLT peerhood). > > Axel > > ______________________________**_________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/governance<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance> > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
