Hey Dicky, I can't really say I appreciate you taking this initiative, but I definitely agree to the last line you have said - 'better to act now than to be sorry later'.
Being in an Open community, I am sure the concerns you have raised are shared by more members in the community. So, just putting in my 2 cents into this, with full faith this would avoid future misunderstandings. Regarding the issue raised on the budget requests and it being an easier process for community leader, is not entirely true. You had given an example of a WoMoz event, organized here in India. If you go through the bug and comments on that (bud id - 1033932), you will realize it wasn't an "easy" process to get the budget sanctioned. I totally agree to your point of the event (it was actually a series of events) not being able to show sufficient short term metric...but at times we do things for long term goals as well. This event was an initiative towards several different things, including an opportunity for more collaborative work with the WeTech (http://www.iie.org/Programs/WeTech) community in India. These are tough metrics to show on the reps portal and anyone missing on seeing these goals is completely possible and thus, your point raised in valid enough from your perspective. Coming to the next point raised regarding a tweet passed on after one of my events. Well, honestly, I don't have a recording of my that day's talk, else would have been easy for me to prove that I had never exactly said, what I was accused of. I have not visited 12 countries in my life yet (Mozilla or no Mozilla funded) and thus had not mentioned that number at all. My sole purpose of talking about my personal experiences and journey was just to motivate other young students in the room towards Open Source contribution, citing examples of how we are rewarded, and why we work even though we are not paid. I may have phrased it wrong due to which someone from my audience got upset and made the tweet. After I realized my mistake, I had not only apologized to him, I had also apologized publicly - http://priyankaivy.blogspot.in/2014/07/my-apology-against-happenings-of-last.html. But some sins probably can never be forgiven. Since that incident, I have been avoiding any public speaking for any Mozilla events, scared to harm my community's name in any manner again. I am not trying to justify my actions. But, since these issues were raised, being in an Open community, I thought it as one of my responsibilities to keep things as clear as possible. -- Regards, Priyanka Nag Dev Evangelist, Scrollback Contact : +91- 9731923363 Website: priynag.in Blog: priyankaivy.blogspot.in/ _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
