On 11/27/2013, 8:52 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
So we need to start out deciding why we think we need a million
Mozillians, what projects could actually use more help and what kind
of help they need, and only then set the measurable goals for each
project. Maybe that means radically growing the webmaker movement,
which can probably scale to that size quite well. Maybe that means we
need more projects, or we need to redesign the participation
opportunities in existing projects. But we absolutely be starting out
with by figuring out what we're trying to accomplish, how many people
we need to accomplish each thing, and then figuring out whether that
means 10 thousand mozillians or 10 million.
I propose that we stop trying to define Mozillian, and return to the
project defining contribution pathways and commitment/responsibility
"levels" for each part of the project.
While I strongly agree with the overall sentiment of this, I think that
conflating the specific goals of the various moving parts of the Mozilla
project with our overall mission to protect and advancement of a free
and open Web is an unwarranted narrowing of scope. We should definitely
avoid any approach that has that weird, unhelpful "YOU may ALREADY BE a
$GROUPMEMBER" cult-mailout vibe, but we should also be able to identify
people who are share our values and are advancing the cause in some way
that isn't on anyone's roadmap, and invite them to the party.
- mhoye
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