Hi Michael, If you take a look at the blogs of the Mozilla community (http://planet.mozilla.org – you'll have to scroll back by a few days), you will see that many members of the community, both employees and volunteers, regardless of their political opinions, were stepping forward to publicly defend Brendan.
Unfortunately, we did not manage to get nearly as much coverage as the OKCupid campaign, and media coverage on the whole story has been very poor, with many wild accusations and very little fact checking. There are certainly things that we could have done better, but we were there, and we still are. Now, if freedom of opinion and speech matter to you, as I believe, we need your help. We need to get the word out and we need everybody's support to keep fighting the good fight for our core values: freedom of speech, privacy and education. Best regards, David On 4/7/14 10:12 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On Sunday, April 6, 2014 10:45:20 AM UTC-4, Michael Connor wrote: >> An immense amount of effort went into trying to support Brendan and weather >> the storm. > > Sorry Michael but I simply do not believe this. > > Perhaps there was some agonizing behind the scenes, but there was not even > one lukewarm official statement of support for Brendan after the OkCupid > initiated the boycott. > > To truly lend support, it behooved Mitchell or whomever to actually dispel > the false reporting about the board shakeup, highlight relevant excerpts from > the company code of conduct, educate everyone on who Brendan is and what his > contributions to Mozilla and WWW have been, describe his workplace record on > LGBT rights, and unequivocally denounce the boycott as unjust and > un-Mozillian. > > Instead, all I saw was one throwaway line in the post-mortem press release to > the effect of "no one ever saw coming" the fact that Brendan made the Prop 8 > donation when it first came to light in 2012 based on his observed conduct. > The rest was all an incoherent, groveling mess blatantly intended to appease > a lynch mob. There was a missed opportunity to actually publicize the great > work and values of the company, and show what upholding openness and > inclusivity really looks like by supporting a family member in his most > difficult hour. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
