+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

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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
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