On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, December 17, 2012 10:47:19 PM UTC-8, David Ascher wrote: > > > For now, I've proposed this newsgroup as the discussion point, but I'm > not sure that's right. Perhaps a new discussion forum would be better. > > > > My belief is that this group (which I think is an excellent idea) will > draw in passionate and talented people who are deeply committed to a better > internet, but not _that_ interested in Mozilla's internal policy > discussions. > > re: the use of a public newsgroup, like Governance, and whether it will > attract the right kind of participants and discussion for our future work > on open net policy issues: > > My experience over the last year with privacy-related posts to Governance > is that the quantity and quality of comments is completely dependent on who > happens to be reading Governance on any given day. > > We may have a really important post on a change in our data practices that > may be controversial with a segment of the community, but since only a > handful of people see a post to Governance, we end up with little to no > deep discussion on ramifications, etc. So, then saying we checked off that > box, solicited community input and are "good to move forward" could still > pose risks to us and our decision-making process. > > Bottom line...I now make a concerted effort to post to Governance and then > also email everyone I can think of who should know about the post and > encourage them to weigh in. Likewise, some kind of direct outreach approach > needs to compliment posts to policy-related newsgroups. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >
We might start a thread about the governance list/group itself. I think it is not well known that this list exists and then it's not super obvious what this list is for. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
