Hi, First, thanks for being a part of the community and for being so passionate about it. If you believe things can be better, it's always good to give that feedback.
With that said, in my mind, there are a number of issues with the form of this: You decide to e-mail a huge number of people and mailing lists, thus spamming a lot of people You write in uppercase letters, which is perceived by most people as shouting and being angry. And you might very well be angry, but shouting is not the constructive path forward Using words like EXPOSE turn this into some kind of witch hunt, where someone has to be judged for their actions. This does not breed mutual respect nor understanding You bring this forward anonymously. If you want to bring change and give feedback in a constructive fashion, it is a lot less likely to be taken seriously if you can't be open about who you are (and if the reason is fear of possible repercussions, that's a bad thing and should also be discussed and addressed) You call someone out for what was said in a specific event. Me myself, I'm a professional speaker, and I make mistakes as well with that I say. If people will refrain from public speaking out of fear for saying something wrong, we will very soon not have any speakers, because, trust me, no one is perfect. All you can ask for is that people learn, improve and, most importantly, dare to keep on trying Moving forward, instead of e-mailing everyone, I suggest approaching the people working with community directly, such as: William Quiviger Chris Hofmann Janet Swisher David Boswell Pierros Papadeas Brian King If you have a problem with anyone in the above list, I suggest you give them the courtesy of letting them know, to fix and build this up together. Also, feel more than welcome to contact me directly, and I'll help you talk to applicable persons at Mozilla. - Robert Nyman On 30 Sep 2014, at 05:19, priyanka nag <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > reps-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/reps-general _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
