Dear All, I have started a thread on Discourse with my reaction to this email. I hope you'll join me in a conversation there: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/building-the-mozilla-we-want-my-response-to-the-recent-anonymous-emails/2264
Best, George On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Dicky Moe <dicky....@yandex.com> wrote: > Caution: Read this mail if you think the recent developments within > Mozilla doesn't feel right and in a way is jeopardizing the mission. If you > are not at all feeling anything, then this is not the mail for you. And > this mail should not be considered as some personal revenge or anything, > but it's time we look back and correct ourselves. > > > 1 . In recent months we have seen lots of passionate staffs and mozillians > leaving the mission, Mozilla has never commented on this trend. Goodbye > message from the ones who left reveal the unhappy events that happened with > them and also appears to hide some messages from public. > > Doesn't the mozillians who work almost similar to the staffs in driving > the mission want to know and has the right to know..? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 2. Sponsored tiles. Though the passionate mission supporters didn’t bring > a positive response to the idea from the start, still Mozilla proceeded > with it using user's browsing history, bookmark and location. > > Seriously, has someone lost mind introducing stuffs like this? Have we > become revenue based rather than mission drivers? We request the concerned > team to look why we are moving away from the mission. Using third party > services compromising privacy, and mission has become a common hobby for us. > Just one question if we are a mission shouldn't we use duckduckgo or > similar service that doesn't track users as default search partner instead > of ones that track. > > Revenue generations is accepted but not by jeopardizing the mission we > promised to follow. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 3. Mozilla has always been a volunteer depended organization, and the > efforts to recognize the volunteers are being worked on all time, that is > fine and the efforts are appreciable but the key flaw in this system is > with recognizing new contributors. > > The recognition provided to new contributors don’t reach them because > their works reach the project which they work on proxied by some existing > contributors. ( a few explicitly mention and report the wrong recognition, > but a few do consider it as advantage.) > > It also seems like the recognition plan didn’t include or even thought > about the fact recognition differs for each individual is different. > > Disbanding Community Building Team (CBT) has made a big hole in volunteer > participation. Now we have participation team, which wholly consists of > staffs and contractors and handpicked volunteers who gets to make key > decisions, whatever. > > This is not all good. Are we moving from closed to being super closed? We > all wanted to bring back CBT. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 4. We strongly urge Mozilla Reps leadership to look into issues like this > because you guys get hate day by day. A fine example is your election. Less > than 50% polled for election, we guess Mozilla Reps leadership has to > evaluate themselves. We dare Mozilla Reps leadership to take an open poll > about your programme and put the results public and then talk. This is for > all those who have been boasting and making dictatorial decision based on > unnecessary power given to the Reps leadership. These leadership is > selected by less than half of the reps community (i.e. less than 50% polled > for elections) and they take all the community decisions. Who even gave > unlimited powers to some 9 people who claim themselves Council. If you mess > with them, then you are done and most of your requests get rejected. And > this is Mozilla Reps leadership for you. > > And Please recognize the contributors. Its like a bunch of volunteers is > using some others contributions and getting credit in their name. Most of > the hardworking mozillians are not getting recognized. Many staffs and > volunteers are playing petty politics. Yeah, well, some crude people like > this are ending up as the staffs at Mozilla. > > We do find a few meetings ( Online and offline ) being held by the reps > council, but so far no outcomes other than the a few pics of food, > beverage, airports from the attendees along with a worthless blog report > with a list of todo works were seen.? > > All concerned persons ask yourself whether you have completed or did any > tasks that you informed to do in previous meetings. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This is a small section about Indian Community and some general issues > that concern everyone. This has been added in response to the couple of > mails and requests from some of the Indian volunteers. > > We were quite sad that the allegations were just cornered to Gauthamraj > alone by Watson an anonymous mail man just like us who have shooted a mail > to the community mailing list last week. Actually there is a bigger > dictatorial group working within the Mozilla India community. > > This is a small group who always wanted control everything. > > 1. Vineel - who himself calls head of community, doesn't come out of the > position after announcing himself about the resignation, proxy other’s work > get credits so on…. > > Has there been any community who have had lead for than four or five > years. Think. Every one respects all the stuff Vineel has done so far and > he will do but this monopoly and not sticking to your own voice isn’t a > great thing. Can someone explain who assigned this the leadership task? > > 2. Soumya Deb - Has a group of good mentees under who are good in > development. They do the work, and Mr. Deb claims the credits and boss > around in media. This is a similar trait shown by most people we mentioned > above and below. Someone does the work boasts to staffs and social media as > theirs. Job well done. > > We wonder how you got invited to MozFest last year, like this only? Or > care to explain. Because we haven't seen a single Webmaker activity by you > and most deserved ones were left here without invitation. > > @council are you finished making the two line reason why those mozillan’s > were selected for Mozfest..? > > 3. Galaxy - We still don't know what this guy is doing in the Mozilla > community. But keeps getting invited everywhere and travel around the > world. People say he is the hotel booking and swag guy, FSA Executive board > member and even engagement (what a joke). Woah, we think that's a lot work > and that's what the Mozilla’s primary concern hotel booking and swag. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > In Mozilla India if you happen to be a girl and seem to have a good > relation with any of guys dictating the Community you automatically seem to > receive the recognition for doing nothing. The Womoz program catalyzes this > process. ( Reverse hasn’t worked so far ) > > Those related with Indian community will know what is a Reps Budget is. If > you want budget for any of the project you have planned plan with any of > these dictators in mind, file the budget execute the project and be ready > to hand over the works and recognition to their name. If not try to forget > about the project or let it stay on paper. > > If you don't believe us just go through the budgets filed by these guys, > and analyse the ease and speed at which these guys gets budget approved > without any questions or anything. We still wonder why Mozilla Community > works like this favoring few people and even paying funds to these guys in > a dark. From what we have heard about the Mozilla Space in Bangalore is > spending tons of money and wasting and not spending proper funds community > who badly need it. Many mozillians and Reps have suffered enough hardships > by getting budget rejected and these guys just screw all with one budget > comment “Your budget is rejected”. Shame on you guys its really shame that > you guys are enjoying the years of hardships by many hardcore Mozillians. > > Another recent bullshit was the mentor selection. We don’t want to reveal > their names, lets have a look at incident without names and we are sure > guessing names won’t be a hard work for any one. > > a couple of the newly selected mentors were not known to work with any > Mozilla projects after the Summit 2013, have happened to fulfill the > requirements to be a reps mentor. Still after the selection they are > nowhere to be seen. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > THE FIREFOX OS > > And again we ask why did Firefox OS fail in India and all over the world. > This is another place where only a small group of people were notified > about all the plannings and only small group went around and did all the > activities. Wasting money is one of the prime qualities of Mozilla India > leadership. Ahh, not to mention the staffs are just same. We saw that the > Firefox OS research was done Rajasthan( state in india ) and the best part > is the phone wasn’t released there. > > Mozillians didn't even know there was a research going on there. Good job > people. We are requesting to show us the outcomes of big events like > MozCamp India beta 2014, Mozilla Task Force Meetup 2015 where 10000s of > dollars were spent. If you have nothing to say about that then you have no > right on crossing the fellow Reps and rejecting the budget when they were > having really put 100% hardship over an event. > > We believe that some of the Mozilla employees are also favoring this > monopoly leadership in India or is it that these self assigned leaders > brainwashing these employees. Nevertheless the Mozilla leadership is surely > unaware of all the ground zero happenings. This is not just a problem in > India, but mostly in Asian regions the one community that's so close to the > happenings in India is Mozilla Bangladesh. > > We hope the concerned Mozilla employees will have a look at this seriously > before this turns to some real madness. > > We wonder why is the community and organization becoming more closed. > Major decisions proceeding without prior informing to volunteers and > closing the issues raised with a sorry. Isn't it this a volunteer driven > community.? > > We wish the community to be open. We had enough rebels and people going on > from an organization we don't want this to continue because we still have > faith in the mission. Hope everything works out. > > Regards > Fellow Mozillian > > > > Watson Vinro, thank you for supporting against the injustices caused. > NOTE: We are not related to Watson Vinro or the team behind Watson Vinro. > -- George Roter Participation Sherpa irc: geroter | skype: geroter Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 <650%20308%208443> _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
