On 10/26/13 1:51 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
On 10/25/13, 10:30 AM, Monica Chew wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
I think it's a wonderful idea to give Reps and other contributors
email addresses. Can I suggest mozillians.org instead of mozilla.org,
though? mozilla.org is not sufficiently distinguishable from
mozilla.com to avoid confusing paid staff from not, and Mozillian has
the benefit of sounding like a person-descriptor.
I should also point out that in the future, it may become very
important to be able to distinguish official email from Mozilla as a
project, versus someone who is affiliated with Mozilla (as paid staff
or not). Anti-phishing standards such as DMARC are much easier to
adopt when an organization can separate mail by function into
different domains. Widening the mozilla.{org,com} namespace makes this
problem worse.
Thanks,
Monica
Hello Monica,
So this discussion has been ongoing outside of Moz Gov for some time now
(a couple years) and the idea to have @mozillians.org addresses was
offered as a suggestion but generally the consensus among community and
even staff who were involved in those discussions seemed to lean towards
mozillians.org.
I do appreciate the concern of not adding confusion between staff and
community contributors but to be honest I think that confusion already
exists and probably would not be amplified by using the mozilla.org
namespace. I know I get asked quite frequently whether I work for
Mozilla (A staff member actually asked me today) and I know that
question is not unique and is common for community contributors.
mozilla.org historically has not been a namespace used by staff from
what I understand but instead was mostly for MoFo but now that has
expanded some?
I don't think we've handed out @mozilla.org email addresses in the last
10-ish years. [email protected] was the operational group running the
mozilla project before the Foundation existed. In the short period when
the Foundation existed and the Corporation did not, hires at that time
probably got @mozilla.org addresses, too.
I joined shortly after the Corporation was incorporated, and at that
point, @mozilla.org addresses weren't given out anymore. Even for
functional stuff like l10n@.
Axel
----- Original Message -----
Hello Governance,
I'm writing today to put forward the following proposal for @mozilla.org
email addresses for Mozilla Reps as outlined here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Mrz/mozilla-org
Additionally, I would like to highlight the following policy that the
ReMo Council has put together in regards to email addresses for ReMo:
https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/email-policy
These proposals and proposed policies have been the work of both
community contributors and staff and I think adding email addresses as a
tool for contributors would be beneficial and add authenticity to
discussions community contributors often have with third parties
including universities, media and developers they engage with in order
to further the goals of Mozilla.
Many other open source projects already have practices of doing this
(Ubuntu: @ubuntu.com, Debian: @debian.org, GNOME: @gnome.org and so on).
Let's start a discussion on this and see where it goes!
--
Sincerly,
Benjamin Kerensa
http://benjaminkerensa.com
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