On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 9:16:15 AM UTC-7, Stormy Peters wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > As an example, by default, when you file a request for support of an event > > to Developer Engagement, those requests now generate two bugs. One for > > tracking and another for discussion (which is done in private and flagged > > company-confidential.) I could give plenty of other examples but because > > this is a public mailing list it would reach into areas I am not allowed to > > discuss on a public mailing list. > > > > > I can give history on this. > > > This process is for events asking for sponsorship for their event. > Sometimes it's community members asking for support (but most of those go > to Reps). Often it's large events, with sponsorship brochures, asking for > Mozilla to sponsor their event. > > The private discussion is used to decide if the event meets Mozilla's > strategy and goals and, if appropriate, how/what to negotiate. > > It didn't seem appropriate to discuss things like "well, they asked for $5K > for silver, but they offer a booth, and what we really want is more > tickets, so how about we offer them $3K for 3 tickets and see if they'll > take it and if they don't, we could go up to $4K." It would make > negotiations much harder if the event planners could also see that. :) And > yes, perhaps the world of negotiation would benefit if both sides shared > information like that, but that should be tried with a smaller, more > trusted group, not a whole bunch of events. > > Note, that this is the history of why it was setup this way, not > necessarily how it works today. > > Stormy
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