There has been a lot of discussion since the Summit about 'what does Mozillian mean?' and I think we've converged on an answer.
The Summit generated three criteria that any definition would need to take into account: * Belief in Mozilla's mission * Action to support the mission * Interaction with other community members Historically, we've reserved the term Mozillian for people who have gotten deeply involved with each of those criteria. For instance, see Austin King's post about when he identified himself as a Mozillian. https://ozten.com/psto/2013/10/28/how-i-discovered-i-was-already-a-mozillian/ The conversation has surfaced a need to be more inclusive with how we're using 'Mozillian' to align with our goal of bringing in many more community members. Many people have proposed broadening the definition to include people earlier on as they're starting to get involved with those criteria. This would mean we'd want to have milestones or levels that mark different points along a pathway of being a Mozillian. This seems to be a general best practice among large volunteer movements. See, for example, the Girl Scouts' levels of involvement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership_levels_of_the_Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA So, we propose defining Mozillian more broadly and then using the criteria from the Summit to identify the different levels of involvement. I've updated the community definitions on the wiki with the specifics for each term (Mozillian, User, Supporter, Casual/Active/Core Contributor). https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community I've blogged about this proposal and have shared it out widely (at Monday All Hands, Yammer, lists, Grow Mozilla calls, etc) and the response has been positive. http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/being-a-mozillian-is-a-journey/ I'd like to make sure this is also discussed on Governance before finalizing the updates to these terms. BTW, we may still need some work on the names of the specific levels -- does it stay supporter, casual contributor, etc or do we make variants of Mozillian like the Girl Scout levels? This will be one of the things we discuss at the upcoming Community Builders meetup and we'll share out that discussion. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
