I'd like to see a wiki page. I think your case is slightly different, there's the case where someone may want to post a one off on behalf of a team they're working with, maybe they led a special effort and the team wants them to blog about it themselves on the team blog, and then there's the case where a volunteer should be blogging regularly for a team.
We probably want to have different best practices for allowing volunteers to post one off, and for allowing regular posting from a specific person. This should be on the wiki so that teams in the future can easily find the instructions on how to do this, of course a blog post telling everyone the wiki page exists would be tremendous! On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Larissa Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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." >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> governance mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Soumya Deb* >>> *http://debs.io <http://debs.io>* >>> Twitter: *@Debloper <http://twitter.com/Debloper>* >>> Open Source Evangelist >>> _______________________________________________ >>> governance mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
