Thank you for appreciating my efforts. Hopefully since that is the case,
you will take my reply to heart.

I am not sure what specific incidents have happened that have made you call
out these particular people here, but in several of your accusations you
are misinformed.

Pierros is still owner of the program, Brian had Rosana's role for a short
time, but not enough time to "ruin" the program. Also, both Brian and Ruben
worked with myself, Vineel, Viking, Guillermo, Rami, Pierros and William Q
in creating the program. In terms of setting policy it was always discussed
between us 9. While William and Pierros certainly deserve extra credit for
driving the program and doing behind the scenes work, if you like the
program you have to give just as much credit to Vineel, Ruben and Brian.

I can also say that transparency has been an issue from the beginning, this
isn't new. William and Pierros deserve as much blame for that as the rest
of us.

Obviously a lack of transparency is partly to blame for your misconceptions
on where the problems lie and who caused them. However, I just put a lot of
work into running a council AMA that didn't get much participation. This
was a great chance to find out more about Council, in fact I asked this
question myself to help people better understand how the program is run -
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/what-are-the-different-roles-of-council-pierros-rosana-and-nukeador/1599

I also tried to start a discussion to better understand what is currently
considered private as well as to advice council and leadership on what we
think should be changed. The participation on that pad, discussion, and
Discourse topic can be counted on one hand.

While I agree with some of the concerns you raise, I have no respect for
your group. You have obviously avoided the chances given to help provide
constructive feedback and even participate in solving the problems. When I
make these threads and call for feedback and get none, it makes me look
controlling, and high strung and like I'm focusing on details that no one
else cares about. I start to sound like the squeaky wheel and then people
start to ignore me. So to be left hanging like that it makes me respect you
even less and gives me no faith that you actually want to see a solution.
If you want to change my mind, start participating.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, matthew zeier <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > We have seen volunteers & Staffs leaving Mozilla and joining
> organizations that totally opposes the Mozilla mission,
>
> I have a pretty strong reaction to that statement.
>
> As a former paid-staff myself, I'll put it this way:
>
> You can take me from the mission but you can not take the mission from me.
>
> Wherever I go - and wherever other Mozilla Alumni go - we take those core
> Mission values with us. It's just impossible to live those values for any
> length of time - 7 years in my case - and not. I'll point to someone like
> Christian Heilmann going to Microsoft as an extreme measure of success.
>
> And I think that's excellent. And I think the real challenge for Mozilla
> is to learn how to leverage those Alumni as we march throughout the world.
>
> The rest of your note was hard to digest as it was too ad hominem and thus
> an ineffective argument.
>
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