Can anyone tell me who is in charge of MOSS now? On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 6:00 PM Akshay S Dinesh <asdofin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear MOSS mentors/selection committee/governance, > > This is a two part email. The first part is about transparency and very > important. The second part is my idea on how to make better use of MOSS and > may be skipped. > > *PART 1 - transparency in MOSS* > > I believe the MOSS GMP India track winners have been selected already > because the applications were in 2017. > > I have checked the following links for the result > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/GMP_India > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/03/moss-2018-year-in-review/ > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/mission-partners-india/ > > It is nowhere on the google indexed internet. > > There is a partial list of MOSS recipients being maintained at > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS#Recipients > > Now, I understand that gerv was maintaining these wiki pages and therefore > his passing away is one of the reasons why these pages aren't getting > updated with newer recipients. But, Mozilla is giving away so much money > under MOSS grants, and transparency should automatically come with that. > > I believe we should maintain a complete list of all MOSS winners with at > least the date of winning and the money won. More details on the MOSS > contract are desirable, if that does not cause any unintended side effects. > > This is not just for transparency, it helps in improving the projects' > visibility and gives the projects much valuable external validation. > > *Part 2 - giving better recognition for MOSS projects (optional)* > Money alone does not help free software projects. These projects are > developed by lonely developers working in isolation. What really helps to > propel development is other developers working with them. Now, I'm not > asking Mozilla to assign Mozilla engineers to work on MOSS projects. > > But let us not forget that a large, extremely large number of young > programmers are attracted to Mozilla every day. The contribution > opportunities for them is currently restricted to Mozilla's projects listed > on https://codetribute.mozilla.org/ or https://whatcanidoformozilla.org > > But if, like our plan with MOSS, these projects advance Mozilla's mission > then they should also get bigger prominence in our contribution > opportunities. We should consider anyone who contributes to any of the MOSS > projects as "Mozillian". This allows a large number of mentors (through > MOSS projects) to enter Mozilla community and also gives young programmers > a wide variety of projects to work on. > > CC'ing Lucy Harris of community development team to consider this idea. > > Akshay > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
