The concept makes sense to me, too.
Just to clarify, would "Area" be a subspace in both topics and region? I
could see people having a global understanding of a particular topic, or
a regional understanding of a variety of topics, or even just being very
good at one topic in one region.
IMHO, each make sense to call out, and are sufficiently far away from
what we'd usually consider to be peer.
Axel
On 09.01.13 21:25, Mitchell Baker 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
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