+1 for this proposed solution. If we move forward with this approach, what are the "concrete" next steps to make this happen before year's end?
- William --- William Quiviger Mozilla Reps Council Member https://reps.mozilla.org/u/wquiviger/ On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like it could be the right solution or even the best one we > currently have available to us. We already have a similar process with > Community IT Requests and I think we could just expand to triage those > requests through that Task Force. > > I would love to move forward with this and would love to see our volunteers > have this early in the new year when representing the Mozilla project. > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Majken Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The peers of the Reps module discussed this, and whatever mechanism is >> used to hand out these email addresses, we feel like it falls under our >> mandate as a need we should be filling - that is to say, not that we want >> to be the ones to control it, but that it doesn't make sense to create >> *another* group to handle this. Reps were already created to cover this >> type of thing. >> >> We want to propose that we do a first wave of giving out these email >> addresses to Reps, after the program does a review of the current >> membership. Then we would commit to a timeline to create the process to >> give the email addresses to volunteers who deserve them but don't fit under >> the current Reps umbrella. >> >> In theory the Reps program also helps non-reps with budget and swag for >> events, currently the process is to ask a Rep to submit the request for you >> (basically a vouching process) and I think distributing the email addresses >> is a pretty similar use case. >> >> Obviously we would continue sharing any proposals with Governance just >> like the original suggestion has done, and of course we could use the ideas >> already proposed - 2 vouches, renew yearly etc. Does this sound like the >> right solution? >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> I wanted to add that I had an opportunity to talk to a few staff from the >>> Portland office who have been following this and they like the idea. >>> >>> One suggested that all staff and contributors should use @mozilla.org >>> >>> On Oct 29, 2013 7:05 AM, "Gervase Markham" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 25/10/13 18:30, Monica Chew wrote: >>>>> 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 think making the distinction between paid staff and volunteers more >>>> clear is actively an anti-goal. >>>> >>>> When this program happens, I would like to see paid staff who qualify >>>> for @mozilla.org starting to use that email address as their primary >>>> Mozilla identity. A few of us already do that. >>>> >>>>> 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). >>>> >>>> Email always comes from a person, it never comes from an organization >>>> (at least, I hope Mozilla will never even attempt to be that >>>> impersonal!). I do not think there will be a problem distinguishing >>>> summit announcements from e.g. IETF contributions (which are always >>>> individual), even if both come from @mozilla.org email addresses. >>>> >>>> Gerv >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> governance mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >>> _______________________________________________ >>> governance mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >>> >> >> > > > -- > Benjamin Kerensa > Mozilla Rep > http://mozillausa.org > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
