On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> To be clear, this gross plagiarism of David Boswell's Volunteer >> Agreement [1] is intended to fall under the "parody" aspect of the >> Fair Use clause. However, I am, as usual, at least half-serious. :) > > There is a serious point here that's worth discussing. > > My main point in the thread about the volunteer agreement was that we can > improve the volunteer experience by being explicit about information that so > far has been implicit or hard to find. > Is it perhaps because the information were now trying to be explicit about lacked peer review and consensus? Who approved any of these expectations? Where was that discussion held?
> I think the same thing can be said about improving the employee experience -- > people should have information about what they're signing up for and what it > is like to work at Mozilla. > > An example of how some of this information is still not explicit came up at > the recent Enabling Communities that have Impact Town Hall. There were > questions in the Q&A that made it clear that not everyone understood that > part of their job involved interacting with and supporting the wider Mozilla > community. > Is it part of their job though? Do recruiters emphasize that if hired candidates are expected to engage with contributors as peers and support the wider community? My understanding talking to several people while this may be an expectation that it is not actually emphasized during hiring or by managers outside of the teams that have a strict goal of interacting with community as their daily job. In fact it was framed to me that while leadership at the top level may encourage this participating by the time it gets to managers there is the question of whether an employee needs to focus on their performance in their role and deadlines or spend time interacting with contributors and supporting the community and usually deadlines and product win. > One possible way we could address this is to include explicit information in > job descriptions about the expectation that employees will work in a way that > enables and supports participation. > How do we backport this? > I don't think we need a separate agreement here since employees already sign > an agreement when they join. Instead we can look at how to be more explicit > with this information in the process that already exists when new employees > join Mozilla. > I'm sure they sign many agreements but do any explain expectations in regards to project and contributors? _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
