On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Patrick Finch via governance
wrote:
> To sum up:
> -Declaring Mozilla to be a de facto “meritocracy” fails to acknowledge
> evident bias in representation in the project.
> -The word “meritocracy” itself has become a bone of contention which is
> unhelpful to us.
On 5/30/18 11:27 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
1) Positive participation in an area of the project is generally a
prerequisite for authority over that area of the project. We expect
module owners to have contributed to the area they are module owners
of prior to becoming module owners. (This has t
Let's add a fourth item to Henri's list on the role of
authority/leadership/maintainership in OSS to elevate and sponsor the next
generation of authority/leadership/maintainership, and to emphasize that
the next generation of OSS leadership should come from underrepresented
groups since they carry
Hi Emma & Henri,
Thanks very much for sharing these important points. They feel like very
valuable responses to an even bigger question : ‘What are the attributes of
Inclusive Open Governance?’. It’s a topic very much on my radar, and our D&I
in Open Source Community Call on June 27th has th
