On 1/9/13 11:14 PM, David Ascher wrote:
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).
It's true for peers so I agree it should be true for Advisors.
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?
I could imagine an Advisor speaking to a policy making and -- in
conjunction with the module owner request or approval -- identifying
him/herself as a Mozilla advisor. Often you want the expert to speak to
the policy makers, and often in a language that many of us don't speak.
I can imagine that in this circumstance being identified as an advisor
to Mozilla would be helpful.
That makes me think we should develop some practices for how Advisors
are known to mozillians, etc. Ultimately the module owner is
responsible for what is conveyed to policy makers under the Mozilla
name, so I can see everyone wanting the Advisor's to be known and see
what open practices make sense for that group
Mitchell
--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
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