I think we may need to have an old guard/new guard discussion on this. The nature of planet has shifted in a similar way to the way an organization shifts. When planet was created there were few enough blogs aggregated that it was a good way to get to better know people outside of a Mozilla context. Last time we had a debate about planet, this was the crux of the issue, whether or not this was planet's purpose. I would suggest that we explicitly call out the fact that the audience is now too large (and isn't just Mozillians), and the stream of content way too high for planet to be suitable for this purpose anymore.
We can wish it was still suitable and we can agree that getting to know each other personally is an important part of building our community, but that doesn't make planet the right tool for the job. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Mike Hoye <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-12-12 12:03 PM, Michael Kelly wrote: > >> Neat! A few questions: >> >> - What's a position statement? I just don't know specifically what that >> term means. :P >> >> What we're aiming for here is, in the broadest sense: > > - "I invite my fellow Mozillians to discuss this controversial topic, that > matters to me, in this other forum" is OK, but > - "On this controversial topic, this is the only correct position to hold" > is not OK. > > I believe that we become stronger as a community for the first, and worse > off for the second. > >> - When you say "a topic others may find challenging", do you mean >> difficult to understand, or do you mean touchy/controversial? >> > We mean touchy/controversial. If you have a solution to P=NP, go right > ahead. If you have a solution to a middle-eastern geopolitical issue, > consider inviting people to have that discussion somwhere not-Planet. > > - Just to clarify, does any of this apply to controversial topics that >> are relevant to Mozilla? Is there more leeway for strong opinions on our >> controversies? >> > Mozilla-relevant content has a home in Planet, even if it's hard to talk > about. > > On "leeway": we're not proposing cutting people off for having strong > opinions, or even content moderation in anything but the most egregious > cases. We're asking that people be explicit in their decisions to send > posts to Planet, and that as a courtesy to fellow Mozillians, when they > decide to use that platform for topics they care about that aren't > precisely on-point, that it be noted as such up front. > > > > - mhoye > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
