Hi David,
I subscribe what David Ascher says. If I put myself in the shoes of a new
potential contributor, my reaction would be: ok, I don't need it, thanks!
I must say that I'm a bit concerned about some tactics Mozilla has been
adopting in terms of community building activities.
I too, believe that the project needs to attract more people in order to
have greater impact in various regions of the globe. Mozilla builds
technology that is booth "free as in free speech" and deploy(able). There
are many opportunities around distributed services or FirefoxOS
applications ecosystem. If you received new contributors with such
agreements ("our project", "you don't have the right to", "you cannot do
this!"), I wonder that there would be an atmosphere of collaboration,
consensus and trust.
Let's try to imagine Mozilla more as an umbrella for various people / orgs.
with shared understanding, collaborating and building consensus - not
dividing it into the "we" and "them". It'd probably be harder to do it
(much harder than "recruiting and making them obey rules"), but probably
worth it for the long run.
This doesn't mean that there shouldn't be guidelines, workshops on how
people should treat each other when participating in Mozilla Project. I
welcome documents such as the community participation guideline for example.
-Alina
On 30 May 2014 19:23, David Ascher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi David — I’m quite supportive of the general goal of clarifying the
> social contract that we have with each other (assuming a bit that that’s
> part of the motivation here).
>
> This document reads like a legal document, not a social contract. Let’s
> find a way to tweak the language, the framing, etc. so that it’s not as
> corporate sounding. When reading it I feel like i’m working through a
> terms of use document, not being welcomed and understanding how I’ll work
> with this new and inspiring community.
>
> For example, it feels very weird to have a non-signed agreement, and to
> put the onus on the volunteer to let us know that they want to end the
> agreement. In reality volunteers just stop showing up.
>
> I would also suggest that an important part of the social contract between
> Mozilla and volunteers is to be explicit about how the organization will
> treat volunteers, how staff will treat volunteers, and how existing
> volunteers will treat new volunteers. That to me feels like at least as
> important as telling people that they can’t misrepresent themselves.
>
> I’d also like to suggest that we have a more explicit set of goals for
> this document — what need is it responding to, how do we know it’s “doing
> its job”, etc.
>
> —david
>
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