First, of any new members of the list are reading this, this is not at all meant as a suggestion that you're not welcome here.
The governance list is the best place we have for discussing the current issues, but it's really not a good place to engage the public on individual issues. SUMO isn't the right place either, even though at first glance it might seem like it (when thinking of the feedback that's starting to come in with Australis). We also have Input, but that won't satisfy people looking to have a conversation. It has been both challenging and rewarding engaging with, and seeing others engage with the public on our issues and how we work. We should have a mechanism for this that: 1. Is easy for the public to use 2. Allows existing communication channels to maintain their current function (having to deal with 100 threads about our CEO issues shifts the governance list's effectiveness) 3. Allows us to create deditcated spaces to send people when we have "hot button" issues 4. Allows Mozillians and core contributors to engage with the public When this issue hit, and before we sent people here, it occurred to me that what we really needed was some sort of "disposable" forum, so that we had a clear place to engage with people, but so that it was contained to an appropriate place. It does occur to me that Discourse would be a very good tool for this, though I'd recommend a stand-alone instance from one we might use for team/community communications. An area of SUMO might work as well, though it would need to be a separate forum that doesn't rely on the SUMO contributors to moderate and monitor. Maybe PR/Engagement would want their own SUMO instance? They could use the knowledge base function to host and localize PR statements and news releases, as well as archives and localizations of important blog posts (like the resignation FAQ) and the manifesto. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
