So it sounds like we need a clarifying statement about volunteers and
blogging with explict advice on what to do if you have something you
want to say on a mozilla blog. Yes? Would this help? (Wiki page, I'm
thinking, and maybe a.... wait for it.... blog post?)
Larissa
On 11/5/14, 14:36, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
I think the problem here is that internally there is no well visible
process for adding volunteers and so some employees have in fact told
volunteers when asked about certain project blogs that volunteers
cannot blog. I know this was the case with the Thunderbird Blog and
mind you Thunderbird is now community-driven.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Soumya Deb <[email protected]> wrote:
As far as I can see:
0. blog.mozilla.org is a WP multisite.
1. hence users of blog.mozilla.org/WHATEVER are centralized
2. hence the registered users for /mozillareps and /somethingelse are same
set
3. let's look at one cherry-picked example:
https://blog.mozilla.org/community/?s=janb
4. Jan Banbach is a community member and volunteer from Germany - still a
minor, hence I'm almost certain he wasn't an employee at any certain period
of time
5. If he can blog on /community, then the presumption of volunteers can't
blog seems mostly wrong
6. With that said, is there any referable mandate that especially says,
"volunteers can't blog"?
7. Sorry for the shortsightedness, if any.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Majken Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
I have seen this issue raised in a few places. I did a quick search and
don't think it's been raised here before, but please link me to past
conversations if it has.
Volunteers are supposed to be the backbone of Mozilla, but there are so
many "little" things that they can't do that widen the gap between employee
and volunteer. This one is incredibly problematic.
As a peer of the Reps program, I just raised the issue to my fellow peers
that Ruben Martin aka Nukeador is making blog posts that should be coming
from the council chair. (Reps blog - https://blog.mozilla.org/mozillareps/
)
The Reps program has a council chair specifically to try and raise the
visibility of the Reps council and leadership. Council members take turns
being the face of the program to make it easier for those not so closely
involved with the leadership to recognize and put a name to the council.
Ruben is paid staff and not on council, but because of the current
restrictions on posting to blog.mozilla.org our council cannot blog for
themselves. Core volunteers cannot speak for their teams. Only paid staff.
I'd like to know if anyone is working on a solution to this problem, and if
so I'd like to be sure that solving this problem is a priority, not a "nice
to have." I'd also like to understand how these sorts of restrictions were
implemented in the first place so that we can avoid using the same
justifications to make similar decisions in the future.
I'm sure there were good reasons to do it the way it was done, but if we
are going to say volunteers and employees are equal, or that volunteers are
core team members, then any reasons that allow us to create such a divide
in privilege can't be viewed as "good enough."
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