Re: Proposal: Addressing the term “meritocracy” in the governance statement

2018-06-08 Thread Patrick Finch via governance
On 6/7/18 11:39 PM, Mitchell Baker via governance wrote: Sometimes good words and good aspirations get tarnished with history, and need to be set aside. I personally aspire to many aspects of our work being a meritocracy. And the original meaning I took for meritocracy in open source meant

Re: Proposal: Addressing the term “meritocracy” in the governance statement

2018-06-08 Thread Larissa via governance
It has taken me a bit of time to reply here, but I wanted to say this: I am very proud to be associated with an organization that evolves in this manner and see that it must. Thank you to Patrick and Emma for pushing this change forward and to Mitchell for being a founder who carries the vision