Re: Module owner change for Mozilla Reps

2016-07-13 Thread Majken Connor
Indeed, congrats Ioana! and thanks Pierros! On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Pierros Papadeas wrote: > Given that there were no objections, I made the change to the module page > today. > > Congratulations to Ioana! > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Pierros Papadeas > wrote: > > Hello all, >

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-06-17 Thread Majken Connor
ity for reviews from Council side for > years and never expressed a lack of time. > > I raise this concern now because I've just received and email telling me > that Council is not longer in charge of certain decisions that I understand > that were not part of this module de

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-06-17 Thread Majken Connor
ountable for will be under this > module and I feel we don't agree with that. > > Cheers. > > El 16/02/16 a las 16:41, Majken Connor escribió: > > I have been working with Tom Farrow (tad) and some other community > members > > to put together a proposal for better deli

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-17 Thread Majken Connor
uld sell themselves. Sometimes this will be hard, but we are prepared for that. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:14 AM, David Ascher wrote: > Thanks Kenzie. This set of reasons makes sense to me. > > My offer to help if/when scope changes stands. > --David > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 7:25

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-17 Thread Majken Connor
owners get control over budget at all, but at least that there is a clear item on someone's budget for our things and we're invited to the table to discuss how much is needed and if it's being well used. > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, 7:44 PM Majken Connor wrote: > >> &

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Majken Connor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:04 PM, David Ascher wrote: > Thanks Kensie -- > > I wholeheartedly support the general idea of trying to bring some cohesion > to the systems that still allow decentralized expression by volunteers of > Mozilla in their local context. We can and should make it easier fo

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Majken Connor
I'll take a first go at answering these questions, but Pierros or Tom might have important info to add: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, David Ascher wrote: > Good to see a proposal. > > I think it'd be good to articulate a bit more of the plan and its purpose, > before diving into the details

Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Majken Connor
I have been working with Tom Farrow (tad) and some other community members to put together a proposal for better delivering Web Services to Communities.This would restructure the delivery of services like hosting, domains and emails which are currently provided to communities. Creating a module wou

Re: Module Owners and Peers Emeritus

2016-01-05 Thread Majken Connor
I'm not so sure. This is really a question of what's the purpose of this module, and of the module system at all! My first question would be why use this as a mode of recognition for people who weren't in modules? Do other recognition tools not exist? Are they lacking? Which method should be impro

Re: Contributions

2016-01-02 Thread Majken Connor
It's not uncommon for a new payment processor to do a fraud check before processing the full payment. Stripe is a well known payment processor, you can look them up. That $1 should only be a hold or should be credited back. Here's their support article on the $1 charge: https://support.stripe.com/

Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central (ThunderbirdS Are Grow! manifesto)

2015-12-15 Thread Majken Connor
This sounds like you've put some thought into this and are committed to putting your money where your mouth is. I hope you get a thoughtful response back! On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Paul Fernhout < pdfernh...@kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 7:47:58 AM UTC-5, And

Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central

2015-12-05 Thread Majken Connor
This is great to read. One thing I have noticed is that the public attention span is very short. I think we do better to figure out how to weather some of the storms than trying to avoid them. The people who will have a long term impact on the impression of and future of Thunderbird will almost al

Re: (MOSS) Eliminating proprietary software in use by Mozilla

2015-11-03 Thread Majken Connor
I see your point on the connection of the two. For Mozilla to move away from the proprietary tools it uses to do its work, there need to be open source alternatives of high enough quality. Those alternatives need investment, investment being MOSS' purpose. When we used TikiWiki for SUMO, it was an

Re: @mozilla.org email addresses for Mozilla Reps

2015-09-28 Thread Majken Connor
Mozilla decided to move to gApps for their mail after we had this discussion. That should remove some blockers on the technical side. Also there is a new participation team that is doing more work on defining and recognizing contributors, which was a blocker on the process side. It seems like we're

Re: Surveillance principles draft

2015-09-10 Thread Majken Connor
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > On 10/09/2015 00:42, Majken Connor wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM, R Kent James wrote: >> >> On 9/9/2015 9:23 AM, Mike Hoye wrote: >>> >>> "Any requirement that systems be

Re: Surveillance principles draft

2015-09-09 Thread Majken Connor
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM, R Kent James wrote: > On 9/9/2015 9:23 AM, Mike Hoye wrote: > >> "Any requirement that systems be designed or modified to enable >> third-party access to encrypted data undermines user security. The goal >> of computer security is to protect users' data from any ac

Re: Fixing the Mozilla Bugs

2015-09-04 Thread Majken Connor
So I think you've raised issues that mostly people agree with. Your idea of a platform is interesting, I'm not sure if that is something that had been considered or attempted. There are people working on solutions to these problems, some areas are making progress, some might not be. Do any of the

Re: Fixing the Mozilla Bugs

2015-09-04 Thread Majken Connor
It looks like you copy/pasted from somewhere that didn't preserve your spacing and paragraphs. It seems like you're making some good points, but in this format it is *really* hard on the eyes. Could you fix up the formatting and resend? On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:18 AM, wrote: > I've been aroundM

Re: Firefox FORCED UPDATES & ADDON'S Rant

2015-07-06 Thread Majken Connor
, wrote: > > > On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 8:47:41 AM UTC-7, Majken Connor wrote, > > responding to patriap...@gmail.com: > > >... but you also say these changes [in Firefox 39] are forced. They're > > > not, they're just the default. > > > > &g

Re: Firefox FORCED UPDATES & ADDON'S Rant

2015-07-06 Thread Majken Connor
2015 at 1:00 AM, wrote: > On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 8:47:41 AM UTC-7, Majken Connor wrote, > responding to patriap...@gmail.com: > >... but you also say these changes [in Firefox 39] are forced. They're > > not, they're just the default. > > > > NO! > &

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-24 Thread Majken Connor
We might also wait to see what Gerv comes back with. As I say to my kids, there's no point arguing about it, look it up. Gerv is currently "looking it up" or at least trying to. Everything in between is conjecture and will become irrelevant once we hear from him. It would be nice, though, to hear

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-17 Thread Majken Connor
I think a large problem with this conversation is that people speaking for Mozilla have already clearly made up their minds, which is true otherwise the feature wouldn't have shipped. However it would be great to get more info on how this decision was made. It's all sort of piecemeal. There is a q

Re: "Fox Yeah you do!"

2015-06-11 Thread Majken Connor
We're intertwining a few different topics here. We've been focusing on the appropriateness of the campaign, but I think the real issue underlying this argument has been about controlling what children are seeing. Different parents are sensitive to different things. I was not sensitive to my kids b

Re: "Fox Yeah you do!"

2015-06-11 Thread Majken Connor
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:40 PM, R Kent James wrote: > On 6/9/2015 3:23 PM, Majken Connor wrote: > > the play on the F*bomb is definitely there >> > > but it did not have to be. This is just a sign of immature marketing by > Firefox, and frankly its embarrassing. > &

Re: "Fox Yeah you do!"

2015-06-11 Thread Majken Connor
I also have children. Many many many children learn the F-bomb at home. As they learn gosh or darn or check, or hell or learn to take the Lord's name in vain, at home. Did you not know that gosh means God and darn means damn? Geez is also short for Jesus. It's pretty much exactly the same, unless y

Re: Firefox FORCED UPDATES & ADDON'S Rant

2015-06-10 Thread Majken Connor
You mention education, but you also say these changes are forced. They're not, they're just the default. - As you saw there is a setting to allow users to control their updates - You mention google so I assume you mean the default search engine, it was only changed to yahoo for users who had never

Re: "Fox Yeah you do!"

2015-06-09 Thread Majken Connor
Terry, I'm a volunteer so I'll start off by saying this isn't an official response. You're right, the play on the F*bomb is definitely there. But it doesn't have to be. It's also a play on Firefox. It's also just as removed as "G" rated plays on swear works - heck, darn, geez, gosh - you say them

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-06-09 Thread Majken Connor
Irvin, I think it might help move this forward if someone started a proposal doc somewhere. Otherwise we won't get out of the debate stage. What you just said seems like a good start for one. It can also capture the questions we need to answer before deciding on a policy. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-06 Thread Majken Connor
Is the answer to 2 "very much" yes? This isn't a feature I'm interested in. I'm more interested in having a setting to use reader mode by default on mobile so I don't waste data loading images etc unnecessarily. However I am guessing that a "save to read later" feature is probably more desirable ou

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-26 Thread Majken Connor
This is so unproductive. Everyone seems more concerned with arguing their opinions than in actually making some sort of progress and as far as I can tell the people who are most active in this discussion aren't actually stakeholders who could take next steps in creating a formal proposal for a poli

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-25 Thread Majken Connor
We need to agree on requirements before we can measure the value of any proposed solution. I don't think that's at all obvious. The technical reason seems to be that people won't be able to find each other, but that's just not true: people can converge on the same value in the same way that write-

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-25 Thread Majken Connor
rkham wrote: > On 25/05/15 15:24, Majken Connor wrote: > > Ok, and how would we figure out where people are on a map, or if they are > > near each other in this case? > > The map use case is easy - there can be few arguments about a person > putting a pin in a map. (Of

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-25 Thread Majken Connor
Ok, and how would we figure out where people are on a map, or if they are near each other in this case? I would guess it would be possible to use the city data (what happens if the city is a contested region though?) or would we be able to create aliases so places on a map have multiple names? I a

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-13 Thread Majken Connor
> If we're trying to provide people the ability to find others who are > co-located within some margin of error, why not allow people to just stick > a pin on a map and take lat/long information from there, maybe with a > radius to create some anonymity and avoid privacy issues for those who are >

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-13 Thread Majken Connor
The last set of posts are focusing heavily on how to solve the political problem and ignoring the use case of the Reps portal. Adam pointed out " If you want to search for users in a specific country, for example, you have to deal with issues around misspellings, alternate alphabets, full versus sh

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-12 Thread Majken Connor
ago, I could just be reconstructing a false memory! On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Sheeri Cabral wrote: > Majken - you may be referring to this, on the Mozillians Yammer: > > > https://www.yammer.com/mozillians/#/threads/show?threadId=518381225&messageId=518381225 > > On Mon, May

Re: Some people on Mozilla Reps have inappropriate City-State

2015-05-11 Thread Majken Connor
Reps portal uses OpenStreetMap. I believe before we had the user editable fields you had to select a location on a map (though my memory could be failing me on this). I have a memory of people complaining about it turning up as Albania, but I couldn't find anything in my email history to confirm th

Re: company-confidential or mozillian-confidential?

2015-04-13 Thread Majken Connor
gt; > Anyways to the point of bugs I think their needs to be some criteria for > what should and should not be company-confidential. I think we need a new - > confidential group added as a less restrictive level and with criteria and > go from there. > > On Apr 13, 2015 10:17 AM, &

Re: company-confidential or mozillian-confidential?

2015-04-13 Thread Majken Connor
I'd love to see a formal audit. Like, have some team go through and figure out where are all these policies, who does what in private and why do they do it in private? I wonder if anyone in the organization has a complete view like this? I'm not opposed to things needing to be private, but it shou

Re: New module contributors

2015-03-13 Thread Majken Connor
I do like that this group has been focusing on being welcoming and encouraging to contributors with disabilities, without focusing on contributing to a11y and think that this is a unique set of expertise provided by this group that we haven't had before. satdav - I think you need to present a more

Re: [mozillians] [Reps-General] Words from a Mozillian Part II

2015-02-19 Thread Majken Connor
Thank you for appreciating my efforts. Hopefully since that is the case, you will take my reply to heart. I am not sure what specific incidents have happened that have made you call out these particular people here, but in several of your accusations you are misinformed. Pierros is still owner of

Re: Logging All Public Project IRC Channels

2015-01-27 Thread Majken Connor
I am also for open by default, but I think that we also need to take human behaviour into account, not just the technical possibilities. I think given how Mozilla operates, publicly (not just for Mozillians) available logs would be akin to streaming every conference room over vidyo by default. This

Re: Logging All Public Project IRC Channels

2015-01-25 Thread Majken Connor
I skimmed, so forgiveness please in advance if I am repeating points already made... This isn't to say that I am opposed to having public logs of *project* channels, but I see two problems that I think should be addressed: 1. Trying to keep up with a project by reading IRC logs (or watching meeti

Re: @mozilla.org email addresses for Mozilla Reps

2015-01-21 Thread Majken Connor
Sorry, for community members, not communities! On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Majken Connor wrote: > No, the idea is to figure out email addresses for communities and use Reps > as the pilot group to figure out how to do this since Reps have already > been vetted. > > On Wed,

Re: @mozilla.org email addresses for Mozilla Reps

2015-01-21 Thread Majken Connor
No, the idea is to figure out email addresses for communities and use Reps as the pilot group to figure out how to do this since Reps have already been vetted. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:21 PM, fantasai wrote: > On 01/14/2015 11:03 AM, Mike Connor wrote: > >> I'll note that, historically, we have

Re: Mailing list/newsgroup module?

2015-01-09 Thread Majken Connor
n, > > On 08/01/15 19:15, Majken Connor wrote: > > I know there is a bugzilla component that covers the mailing list/groups > > discussion forums. I was just quickly wondering if there is a module that > > governs them. > > I believe this is one of the many area

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2015-01-08 Thread Majken Connor
Coworker doesn't have to refer to employees and given the context of the conversation, I believe it wasn't meant to. Whether people are paid or volunteering, a workspace is still a workspace. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2015-01-08 2:40 PM, Al Billings wrote: > >> Potent

Mailing list/newsgroup module?

2015-01-08 Thread Majken Connor
I know there is a bugzilla component that covers the mailing list/groups discussion forums. I was just quickly wondering if there is a module that governs them. Thanks! ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/li

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2015-01-07 Thread Majken Connor
7 9:35 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: > >> On 01/01/15 17:03, Majken Connor wrote: >> >>> Whichever >>> version of God does or doesn't exist doesn't affect Mozilla as an >>> organization. >>> >> >> Unfortunately, that's not so

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2015-01-01 Thread Majken Connor
without being exclusive shouldn't be prevented from doing so just because you can't. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:20 AM, wrote: > On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 8:57:56 AM UTC+1, Gervase Markham wrote: > > Hi Majken, > > > > On 29/12/14 18:00, Majken Connor wrote: &g

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2014-12-29 Thread Majken Connor
ogress, however sometimes they do, so I think the right thing to do is to leave room for discretion. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Majken Connor wrote: > I don't know whether the disclaimer is what Mike is talking about, though > I think it does obviously let people know right up

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2014-12-29 Thread Majken Connor
I don't know whether the disclaimer is what Mike is talking about, though I think it does obviously let people know right up front that you'll be talking about Christianity, though I don't think it really does a good job of describing what you'll say. However, this post would be in violation of the

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2014-12-19 Thread Majken Connor
It's hard to tell from your wording if you're planning to give people advance notice before disabling their feeds. If you weren't already planning on it, I'd suggest that you do. Technically it's not very different, but psychologically, being consulted before an action is taken feels much better th

Re: @mozilla.org email addresses for Mozilla Reps

2014-12-16 Thread Majken Connor
I think we were in agreement on Reps getting email addresses. Two parts stalled: 1. How to actually give out the mailboxes 2. When we expand to allow non-Reps contributors to have the addresses (as we agreed that contributors besides Reps have earned them) how do we have a clear definition for non

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2014-12-13 Thread Majken Connor
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2014-12-13 1:36 PM, Majken Connor wrote: > >> When planet was created there were few enough blogs aggregated that it >> was a good way to get to better know people outside of a Mozilla context. >> Last time we had a d

Re: Planet refresh and proposed policy changes.

2014-12-13 Thread Majken Connor
I think we may need to have an old guard/new guard discussion on this. The nature of planet has shifted in a similar way to the way an organization shifts. When planet was created there were few enough blogs aggregated that it was a good way to get to better know people outside of a Mozilla context

Re: Firefox built-in censorship?

2014-12-11 Thread Majken Connor
ble for viewing something you didn't want to view. Especially was the wrong word there! I think most people don't want to view it "Especially" because it's gross and wrong, NOT just because it's illegal. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Majken Connor wrote: > I

Re: Firefox built-in censorship?

2014-12-11 Thread Majken Connor
I am totally not informed on this, so please keep that in mind. We already include a similar form of censorship in the browser with our security settings around malicious sites. I can imagine that a feature that works the same way would be the way to go if this were in fact in the works. a) Most

Re: Hypocrisy in Mozilla's deals with China and Russia?

2014-11-24 Thread Majken Connor
Adam, Thanks for providing the extra information. I don't have much more to say as I'm not well informed on the relationships these companies have with their governments or their business practices. I am not so naive, just speaking broadly. I do think though that this problem isn't limited to Chin

Re: Hypocrisy in Mozilla's deals with China and Russia?

2014-11-23 Thread Majken Connor
These search deals aren't with the governments of these countries. Just like in the US, people in different regions prefer different services. Those happen to be the preferred services in those countries. The previous Google deal was more hypocritical because we stopped tailoring the default to the

Community IT leadership

2014-11-06 Thread Majken Connor
Hi all, It seems like people haven't been sure who to contact when they want to reach out to Community IT either for discussions or for an issue. We've updated our wiki page here - https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Community I am the project manager and the main point of contact if you want to reach ou

Re: Volunteers can't blog

2014-11-05 Thread Majken Connor
ill a >>> minor, hence I'm almost certain he wasn't an employee at any certain >>> period >>> of time >>> 5. If he can blog on /community, then the presumption of volunteers can't >>> blog seems mostly wrong >>> 6. With that said,

Re: Volunteers can't blog

2014-11-04 Thread Majken Connor
Thanks everyone. I'm glad to see that I was misinformed. I knew that volunteers had been able to blog in the past, but I thought the policy had changed since I trusted my source. I apologize to anyone who was upset. I didn't think I was making an assumption. Do we have a wiki page or some other g

Volunteers can't blog

2014-11-04 Thread Majken Connor
I have seen this issue raised in a few places. I did a quick search and don't think it's been raised here before, but please link me to past conversations if it has. Volunteers are supposed to be the backbone of Mozilla, but there are so many "little" things that they can't do that widen the gap b

Re: [mozillians] Words from a Mozillian

2014-10-02 Thread Majken Connor
Oops, I meant to leave this on Governance as well. -- Forwarded message -- From: William Reynolds Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [mozillians] Words from a Mozillian To: Majken Connor , Robert Kaiser Cc: Mozillians Here is the recap of ReMo Camp https

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

2014-08-29 Thread Majken Connor
Gerv, Your train of thought seems dangerously similar to "if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to be worried about" which is definitely NOT Mozilla's policy on privacy and so I think is irrelevant here. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 27/08/14 18:4

Re: Fx Privacy Notice Addition (Tiles)

2014-08-27 Thread Majken Connor
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 27/08/14 15:07, Trevor Saunders wrote: > > That *really* depends on the URL. For example it seems pretty > > reasonable to not want mozilla to know I've clicked on a tile going to > > > http://www.amazon.com/Titan-17612-12-Piece-Precis

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

2014-08-01 Thread Majken Connor
"to explore new ways of doing things" I think "be disruptive" has the same issue in that this is not the usually meaning when we use it this way. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Brian King wrote: > On 27. 07. 14 19:18, Robert Kaiser wrote: > >> ddi...@mozilla.com schrieb: >> >>> You agree to c

Re: Creating a non-volunteer agreement

2014-07-27 Thread Majken Connor
No, but emphasizing it earlier on in the process will signal that we take it seriously. Which is why I think having a formal doc is important as well. That sends the signal that we find it important enough to highlight it on its own, not just reference it across different processes. If we put it ou

Re: Creating a non-volunteer agreement

2014-07-26 Thread Majken Connor
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:16 PM, wrote: > > Is it perhaps because the information were now trying to be explicit > > about lacked peer review and consensus? Who approved any of these > > expectations? Where was that discussion held? > > We need to be explicit because the information we want new c

Re: Creating a non-volunteer agreement

2014-07-10 Thread Majken Connor
I love it, it's short, to the point and presenting it to new paid contributors as suggested will reinforce that working within the community, not just your team, is our priority. It's a tiny change, but I think it would have a great impact on the tone and context of how new people think about worki

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

2014-06-17 Thread Majken Connor
I almost wonder if the intent her is so that volunteers don't try to police each other... ie you hold yourself to this agreement but don't tell others that they are or aren't violating the agreement. On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Robert DC. Reyes wrote: > I beg to disagree. It is straightfor

Re: Mozilla values, FIFA and marketing

2014-06-12 Thread Majken Connor
>From the feedback it seems safe to assume the local community in Brazil and other countries where the World Cup is A Big Deal (tm) weren't consulted on messaging. If that's true then that's something we really need to fix. The Reps program is under engagement, the engagement team should probably h

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

2014-06-10 Thread Majken Connor
I think this is better. Pascal - I have a feeling this is meant to be as part of your contributions to Mozilla. So you can't rob a bank and donate the money to Mozilla, or host an event that would be considered trespassing. The wording can be clearer, but maybe it is the formatting in email, the l

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

2014-06-06 Thread Majken Connor
I just want to mention again (did it go through the first time?) that many teams besides Reps need a formal agreement to allow volunteers to take on responsibilities and leadership and to allow them to be in on sensitive information. This agreement as it is written seems like it would be intended

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

2014-05-30 Thread Majken Connor
I'm wondering if we're misunderstanding the purpose of this agreement, or maybe people are approaching it from different angles? It seems worded to me to address the need to have a formal agreement when we want to give certain responsibilities to volunteer contributors. We're missing something gen

Intellego - introduction, feedback needed

2014-05-23 Thread Majken Connor
Hi everyone, At the summit last year, several of us had "aha" moments around Mozilla, the community, the internet, and language. We've started a small but growing working group towards addressing the issues of open language tools. More info about the project and our scope here - https://wiki.mozi

Re: Evolving the Mozilla Project Meeting

2014-05-22 Thread Majken Connor
No, I don't think so, but I would imagine an edited highlight reel from the meeting would get a lot more views than simply a video of the whole meeting. When I miss meetings I never have an extra hour lying around to watch a video just in case something happened that I want to see. On Thu, May 22

Re: Mozilla and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Majken Connor
A bit aside to the discussion of DRM itself - This is the kind of topic that Reps will be asked about. I'll be helping man our booth at OSCON for example. Of course Reps were invited to the town hall, but I'd like to see something a bit more like training than just information. A guide similar to

Re: Inconsistency: Tracking users with Google Analytics on pages promoting Privacy

2014-05-07 Thread Majken Connor
Stacy, While people are talking about switching from Google, the underlying question really is how do we know we can trust Google? Yes, we have a signed agreement with them, but would we be able to tell if they are violating the agreement? If people are confident that we can hold Google accountabl

Re: Inconsistency: Tracking users with Google Analytics on pages promoting Privacy

2014-05-01 Thread Majken Connor
I think the "master" question is: How would we know if Google is misusing the data? All of the others follow out of that. If we can't know whether or not Google is misusing the data then it's a matter of faith, and that's not the best position to be in. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Michael K

Re: Inconsistency: Tracking users with Google Analytics on pages promoting Privacy

2014-04-30 Thread Majken Connor
Yes, we have to be careful to distinguish between what Mozilla as an organization is equipped to do and what Mozilla as a community is capable of doing. It is acceptable to say that MoCo can't make this a priority with dedicated resources at the moment, but that doesn't mean that if a group of cont

Re: What happened to the 1st Amendment???

2014-04-16 Thread Majken Connor
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:10 PM, wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > 1) Why didn't they offer him the CEO position? Has Mozilla attempted to > persuade Brendan to speak publicly on this? What was his response? > Because he had just quit that position. "I don't want to be CEO anymore." "Ok, how a

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-16 Thread Majken Connor
ubén Martín wrote: > El 16/04/14 00:05, Majken Connor escribió: > > 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

Engaging the public

2014-04-15 Thread Majken Connor
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

Re: Please explain these blog posts here! And afterwards i hope you plan to quit your cooperation with Google

2014-04-15 Thread Majken Connor
If you want to use that logic then you'll not be able to use Chrome either as it has many similarities to Firefox. ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance

Re: Mozilla fiddles while Mozilla burns

2014-04-13 Thread Majken Connor
"5 Mozilla employees demanded that Eich be excluded because of his religious beliefs, which violates the core value of inclusiveness." This was a blindspot in our policy. They weren't asking Brendan to be excluded from Mozilla, they were saying they didn't support him as a leader. There are alread

Re: What happened to the 1st Amendment???

2014-04-13 Thread Majken Connor
Jim, Mitchell and Brendan are cofounders of Mozilla and have been friends for a long time. Knowing that probably makes a difference in how her words are interpreted. We have realized that the initial blog post she made had some issues with wording. The FAQ has been updated for some of those issues

Re: CEO Brendan Eich

2014-04-13 Thread Majken Connor
wrong will help us. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Steve W wrote: > On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:23:08 PM UTC-7, Majken Connor wrote: > > Kenneth, > > > > > > > > What specifically would you like an apology for? We have had a lot of > > > > people

Re: CEO Brendan Eich

2014-04-12 Thread Majken Connor
Kenneth, What specifically would you like an apology for? We have had a lot of people coming through with varying points of view of what happened and what they think should have happened instead. Unfortunately it seems many people are upset that Brendan resigned and left Mozilla. However this was

Re: What happened to the 1st Amendment???

2014-04-12 Thread Majken Connor
We didn't force him out. We didn't force him out because of his views. We knew about his donation 2 years ago. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Big Fred wrote: > That's just an article that agrees with Eich being purged. > > 10.04.2014, 22:08, "Majken Connor" :

Re: First Mozilla, Now Dropbox...who's next in the for lack of a better word, Anschluss?

2014-04-11 Thread Majken Connor
I think we haven't really been talking a lot about the tactics other than the tweets and other online campaigns. I have heard under circumstances that can only be considered hearsay that things like death threats were issued towards Brendan, but I haven't seen much talk about it. Certainly it woul

Re: another one

2014-04-11 Thread Majken Connor
Mozilla community. > > Jim > > > > On Thu, 4/10/14, Majken Connor wrote: > > Subject: Re: another one > To: "David Rajchenbach-Teller" > Cc: "Shaun Kennard" , " > governance@lists.mozil

Re: another one

2014-04-10 Thread Majken Connor
Shaun, Here is a really good article about free speech and what happened with Brendan - http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/04/05/brandon-eich-and-mozilla/ On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:29 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller < dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Shaun, > > I'm sad to hear that. While you are not th

Re: What happened to the 1st Amendment???

2014-04-10 Thread Majken Connor
This article does a really good job of answering your question in the context of what happened here - http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/04/05/brandon-eich-and-mozilla/ On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Jim Polizzi wrote: > I've just deleted Firefox from my computer--- good riddance > __

Re: Mozilla CEO firing

2014-04-10 Thread Majken Connor
Glenn, We knew about the prop 8 donation a few years ago, so it's not so simple. If the donation was a big enough problem for us he'd have never been chosen. Obviously it was a problem for some people, but the media storm hit so hard and so fast that Brendan resigned before we could think this thr

Re: Brendan Eich

2014-04-08 Thread Majken Connor
Dennis, It got lost in all the replies to different posts, but thank you so much for this message in particular. These issues are exactly what we've been working through, and partly why we weren't able to handle the situation better. Most of us hadn't had time to decide if we thought Brendan was t

Joining the board

2014-04-07 Thread Majken Connor
Hey, I know someone who was asking about how someone would put forward their name to join the Mozilla board. He has experience on other boards, including not for profits and has been a long-time Mozillian. ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.moz

Re: Choosing lead roles and direction by the community

2014-04-03 Thread Majken Connor
I like all of Ben's suggestions except having a vote. Not being democratic has worked well for Mozilla. Having clear owners and expertise has worked. Switching to votes doesn't actually ensure people's voices are heard, and I think it actually does a worse job of making sure people's voices are hea

Re: What happens Mozilla?

2014-04-03 Thread Majken Connor
Gio, The problem is that the role of CEO is outward facing. I was lucky to have one of my questions answered in the townhall, basically how is the role of CEO different from Brendan's previous roles of being CTO and on the steering committee. The big answers were working with partners, and hiring.

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