On Jun 10, 2014 11:00 AM, "Emma Irwin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "As a volunteer for our Project"
>
> 'our project' seems a bit too possessive/excluding.  Perhaps  'As a
> volunteer for Mozilla' or 'As a volunteer for the Mozilla Project.
>

Yeah this seems contrary to the "One Mozilla" saying.

> What I'm having trouble with,  is how an 'agreement' would be perceived to
> casual volunteers who step up to help 'once in a while' :  helping in IRC
,
> editing a Wiki, submitting  single PR for a bug they found and fixed...
The
> Red Cross  was mentioned,  but I'm not sure if they have this same type of
> casual and one-off volunteerism?
>

Also volunteering for Red Cross is different then volunteering for an open
source project. I would imagine some people see their contributions as more
to the Mozilla the project and less so to the Mozilla entities.

Frankly one reason we probably have more volunteers than the Red Cross is
because of the lack of formalities.
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