Yes, Mehan Jayasuriya <me...@mozillafoundation.org> is running MOSS now. Feel free to reach out to him.
On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 4:28:43 AM UTC-5, Akshay S Dinesh wrote: > Can anyone tell me who is in charge of MOSS now? > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 6:00 PM Akshay S Dinesh <asdofin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear MOSS mentors/selection committee/governance, > > > > This is a two part email. The first part is about transparency and very > > important. The second part is my idea on how to make better use of MOSS and > > may be skipped. > > > > *PART 1 - transparency in MOSS* > > > > I believe the MOSS GMP India track winners have been selected already > > because the applications were in 2017. > > > > I have checked the following links for the result > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/GMP_India > > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/03/moss-2018-year-in-review/ > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/mission-partners-india/ > > > > It is nowhere on the google indexed internet. > > > > There is a partial list of MOSS recipients being maintained at > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS#Recipients > > > > Now, I understand that gerv was maintaining these wiki pages and therefore > > his passing away is one of the reasons why these pages aren't getting > > updated with newer recipients. But, Mozilla is giving away so much money > > under MOSS grants, and transparency should automatically come with that. > > > > I believe we should maintain a complete list of all MOSS winners with at > > least the date of winning and the money won. More details on the MOSS > > contract are desirable, if that does not cause any unintended side effects. > > > > This is not just for transparency, it helps in improving the projects' > > visibility and gives the projects much valuable external validation. > > > > *Part 2 - giving better recognition for MOSS projects (optional)* > > Money alone does not help free software projects. These projects are > > developed by lonely developers working in isolation. What really helps to > > propel development is other developers working with them. Now, I'm not > > asking Mozilla to assign Mozilla engineers to work on MOSS projects. > > > > But let us not forget that a large, extremely large number of young > > programmers are attracted to Mozilla every day. The contribution > > opportunities for them is currently restricted to Mozilla's projects listed > > on https://codetribute.mozilla.org/ or https://whatcanidoformozilla.org > > > > But if, like our plan with MOSS, these projects advance Mozilla's mission > > then they should also get bigger prominence in our contribution > > opportunities. We should consider anyone who contributes to any of the MOSS > > projects as "Mozillian". This allows a large number of mentors (through > > MOSS projects) to enter Mozilla community and also gives young programmers > > a wide variety of projects to work on. > > > > CC'ing Lucy Harris of community development team to consider this idea. > > > > Akshay > > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
