On May 22, 2014, at 5:19 AM, curtis.koe...@gmail.com wrote: > Honestly, I am not a big fan of this change. The fact that we have an open > and public meeting is what I think helps us build community. People can tune > in and take a casual look at what we're up to. Find things they might be > interested and then join in. I've used the Monday public call with a few > college students to get them to look at starting University Reps programs or > Mozilla Clubs. When people at cons ask about what we're doing I direct them > to tune into the Monday call and see for themselves. While I agree we need > some format changes I think changing the openness of our meetings shows a > retreat of sorts from where we need to be engaging the public.
I think that over the years the single “call”, by growing in audience, ends up serving too many purposes, and we need to split up the needs, of which there are _at least_ 3: - a place to ask questions, even tough questions (most relevant for people already part of the project; hopefully high enough value to most mozillians that it will trump other things you could be doing —> shouldn’t have what feels like “filler” content). - a place to find out what’s going on, what the opportunities for contribution are, etc. (can be read-only, likely should be quick at first, needs to be pan-timezone). - a place to get your bearings about the broader mozilla, understand the breadth and depth of the effort (most relevant for new mozillians, but also people looking up after working in the depths of a project for months — can be read-only, doesn’t need to be quick) I read Potch’s proposal as being mostly about the first bullet, and some of the proposals (minutes, edited video posted for async viewing, etc.) as being about the other bullets. I think as long as we keep _a_ public thing that we could point to like Curtis does that gives that overview + with the calls-to-participate with the smaller, more actively open conversations that Christie mentions, we’ll be able to have more substantive conversations among the existing project participants and we’ll likely have higher attendance among those folks. —david _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
