Hi all, Well I have a different perspective on all this. I'm always ready to help and contribute in my free time on what can I add value to the movement and what motivates me: I enjoy doing small talks about web apps, facilitating, or host a webmaker event for kids (because that helps me learn and grow as a practitioner).
I don't think that the problem is volunteer-employee. But as MoCo enters in a more business environment (which it is both natural and good for free software) and the global community diversifies and grows, it is normal to have contractors/paid people doing specific tasks. The question here is not whether volunteer community is marginalised, but how to empower a living and sustainable ecosystem. That means, how from a volunteer basis you can actually evolve and start doing more within/related to Mozilla (potentially as your daily work). Unfortunately, often when you say you're doing a thing on a volunteer basis, some people still see you as an amateur (and yes, I spent lot of time trying to figure this out). On the other side, doing a work well, taking leadership or responsibility means time, means good skills and this usually needs to be paid. It could be a long conversation, but indeed, what's important is that, in these times of important change, Mozilla leadership should be aware that going against your own ecosystem is not a good thing (especially now, when Firefox OS needs all this local support to be successful). Cheers, Alina On 4 April 2013 23:20, Rubén Martín <[email protected]> wrote: > El 04/04/13 23:16, Rubén Martín escribió: > > I think we need an update from HR on this. As mentioned, they were > > working on how to solve it back in Mozcamp EU, but the problem is > > getting bigger and bigger each month. > My point here is that the "let's work on this" doesn't work anymore > because at the end this enthusiasm gets blurred over time. Let's form a > working work focused on solving these problems and inform the rest of > the organisation on regular basis about updates, and work with key > mozillians that are already working on them. > > Regards. > > -- > Rubén Martín [Nukeador] > Mozilla Reps Mentor > http://www.mozilla-hispano.org > http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano > http://facebook.com/mozillahispano > > > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > > -- Alina Mierlus @alina_mierlus _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
