On Monday, December 17, 2012 10:47:19 PM UTC-8, David Ascher wrote: > > For now, I've proposed this newsgroup as the discussion point, but I'm not > > sure that's right. Perhaps a new discussion forum would be better. > > My belief is that this group (which I think is an excellent idea) will draw > in passionate and talented people who are deeply committed to a better > internet, but not _that_ interested in Mozilla's internal policy discussions.
re: the use of a public newsgroup, like Governance, and whether it will attract the right kind of participants and discussion for our future work on open net policy issues: My experience over the last year with privacy-related posts to Governance is that the quantity and quality of comments is completely dependent on who happens to be reading Governance on any given day. We may have a really important post on a change in our data practices that may be controversial with a segment of the community, but since only a handful of people see a post to Governance, we end up with little to no deep discussion on ramifications, etc. So, then saying we checked off that box, solicited community input and are "good to move forward" could still pose risks to us and our decision-making process. Bottom line...I now make a concerted effort to post to Governance and then also email everyone I can think of who should know about the post and encourage them to weigh in. Likewise, some kind of direct outreach approach needs to compliment posts to policy-related newsgroups. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
