Le 06/06/2014 19:20, Majken Connor a écrit :
I just want to mention again (did it go through the first time?) that many
teams besides Reps need a formal agreement to allow volunteers to take on
responsibilities and leadership and to allow them to be in on sensitive
information. This agreement as it is written seems like it would be
intended for that purpose. Because it seems so far off from the purpose
stated when it was shared, it seems to make sense to keep this agreement
and tweak it for the purpose it suits.
I'm following this thread since the beginning and I'm confused:
reading David's announcement, the initial goal is to decuple the number
of contributors. Now, it seems that other goals are included.
I understand that now that the community is growing, it is difficult for
MoCo/MoFo employees to settle a trusted relationship with every new
comer: this takes time and with the growing numbers of contributors,
building such trusted relationship with each contributor is not possible.
Back in the days, in the early soaring of Firefox, many contributors
gave interviews, made technical printed book reviews and so without
signing or reading any guideline or code of conduct or whatever: it was
always clear and obvious that we were not talking or acting on behalf
Mozilla but as Mozilla contributor. Well, it is common sense, we were
not employees.
In my understanding, the "Welcome contributing to Mozilla" document
would look like:
What is Mozilla. -> Short history, Manifesto…
What do we do? -> Events, contribution to other FOSS projects, …
Where can you help? -> list of projects needing help
I'm stuck, where can I get help? -> websites, newsgroups, individuals, …
If needed, it can be stated that contributing to Mozilla does not give
the right to speak *on behalf* Mozilla, but obviously contributors have
their freedom of speech as long as they speak for themselves.
Would this document decuple the number of contributors, I don't know,
but at least, this would avoid a lots of questions/emails/posts to
employees/contributors.
Concerning sensitive information or NDA, this is a one to one agreement.
Should this be signed or not, it is up to legals to decide, but in my
opinion, this should not be in the "welcoming document".
It seems like it would be better to take the community guidelines as a
starting point for a more general "welcome, this is how we do things here"
(and isn't that what the guidelines are anyway? Would we really need a new
document or just to start putting the guidelines in front of people?)
Voilà!
Regards
Cédric
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