On 21/11/13 18:02, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
I'm sure you are not suggesting simply redefining "Mozillian" so we can more quickly get to the arbitrary target of 1 million. So you must be arguing that widening the definition in itself means that people are more likely to get involved, that is, that people want the label "Mozillian" and are more likely to take a first step of involvement to get it. I remain unconvinced that this is so. And I remain concerned about the community effects of taking a label which most core people use to mean "us" (in some way), and redefining it to mean "us, plus a much larger group of people who day-to-day have no interactions with us". But I've made both of these points before. > 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 These aren't levels of involvement, they are age-related names. To go from being a Daisy to being a Brownie you don't do more Girl Scout activities, you just have to get older. So I don't think this particular analogy holds. I'm sure there are other organizations where it would hold. But no-one is opposing the idea of having different milestones or levels on a journey of increasing involvement. The discussion is over how those levels should be named. > 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? If we go this way, I think the names would be better if they included the word Mozillian. So something like: Core Mozillian Active Mozillian Casual Mozillian Supporting Mozillian Users are noted as "may not be aware of Mozilla's mission" so I don't think they get the label Mozillian, by your criteria above. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
