On 07/04/13 21:30, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > Really good points. Riffing on these, a Mozilla employee recently said > to me something like "I know not to rely on volunteers" when I > apologized for taking a long time with something I'd said I would do. > This might not be the exact wording he used, but IMO this is exactly > wrong.
I think he drew an unfortunate conclusion, and if he didn't follow up with you like he would have with a paid person, then that was wrong of him. But I do think (any maybe everyone here agrees!) that, while we do not expect volunteers to put in a time minimum or anything like that, one thing I think it's reasonable for us to expect (in this and any volunteer organization) is that people will do things they promise to do, or be very communicative if their circumstances change and they no longer can. If that's a problem, they shouldn't be making any promises in the first place. "I'm a volunteer" is no excuse for flaking out on people; to do so gives diligent volunteers a bad name. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
