On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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? > > We need to be explicit because the information we want new contributors to > know about (this goes for both paid staff and volunteers) is hard to find. > > How would anyone know that we have participation guidelines, for instance? > If you wanted to discover where that page is on www.mozilla.org it is > hard to find. You have to navigate through the following set of pages to > get to it: Home page > Mission page > Governance page > Policies page > > Participation Guidelines. > > The Participation Guidelines were certainly created through an open > process where many people had input and the discussion was held in a > variety of community channels. > > > Is it part of their job though? > > Yes. Our rhetoric is that all staff are scaffolding for a broad-based > community effort. Some staff, such as a dedicated community manager, have > more responsibilities than others, but everyone has a role to play in > keeping the community healthy. > > > 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. > > So my recommendation to address fantasai's point is to make this > information more explicit in job descriptions so that these topics will be > discussed more consistently in the interview process. > But by the same arguments you make for a volunteer agreement, doesn't it also support fantasai's proposal? Have a specific document that is then expected to be shared and referred to during the interview process. This document could be linked to from each job posting, for example. > > Thanks, > David > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
