On Monday, April 7, 2014 11:29:51 AM UTC-4, Adam Porter wrote: > On Monday, April 7, 2014 10:19:46 AM UTC-5, Larissa Shapiro wrote: > > > > > Many of us, including Mozillians like me, who are pro marriage-equality for > > LGBT people, did speak up in Brendan's defense, many of us are now grieving > > his loss to the project. The media was so loud, it was hard to find the > > voices in the melee. Please do not confuse that for our voices absence. > > > > Thank you, Larissa, this is also a very important point. Had I spent more > time reading Planet Mozilla, I might have seen more support for him. > Naturally, those supporting comments don't make for as sensational stories as > calling for his resignation does, so they don't get publicized as much. > Maybe this is something for PR departments to keep in mind in the future; > maybe more could have been done to get the word out about Mozillians who did > support him.
I guess there's not much the Mozilla rank-and-file could have done to quell the full wrath of the Internet. But while the media neglected to report on employee blog posts, it was starved for statements from the board. All Mitchell and Reid had to do was tactfully copy/paste the sentiments expressed by their own passionate and persuasive employees instead of prostrating before an ill-informed mob. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
