sounds good to me! can we assume that the module owner has discretion to grant and revoke such an designation? (trying to avoid extra process).
I'm assuming this is mostly an honorific, and intended to communicate to the community in a shorthand why a module owner e.g. would take person A's opinion as deemed-high-quality? --da On 2013-01-09, at 12:25 PM, Mitchell Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Harvey mentioned in a prior post that he is eager to create a group > committed of people with particular expertise who have agreed to assist > Mozilla with their area-specific expertise. We're calling this group Area > Expert Advisors. Participation in the module would of course be open, just > like other modules. > > I'd like to try out the idea of Area Expert Advisors, at least for the Public > Policy Module. > > The Area Expert Advisors would be different from peers. A peer is someone to > whom the module owner has delegated some of her/his authority. A peer is > expected to view things from a Mozilla perspective, and to provide leadership > for Mozilla within our specific context. > > Area Expert Advisors may become peers, but they need not. We would value > their participation for their expertise and their particular perspective. We > may have Area Expert Advisors who don't know enough about Mozilla to have > leadership authority and we may have Area Expert Advisors with perspectives > that vary somewhat from those at Mozilla. And an Area Expert may be an expert > in one area (antitrust) but not in copyright, for example, and may not want > to focus on the breadth and frameworks aspects we'd like to see in the owner > and peers. > > I think formalizing the group will also be helpful. It provides a level of > transparency for all of us. It lets us know where we have people outside of > Mozilla with particular expertise they are explicitly willing to offer us. I > don't know if this is applicable to other modules, but I think it will be > helpful here and would like to try it. > > Thoughts welcome. > > Mitchell > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
