The use of Slack at Mozilla has bothered me for a while. So far I managed
to pretty much ignore Slack. I feel left out sometimes but it hasn't been a
big deal, as far as I can tell. (Of course, since I don't have an account,
I don't know how much exactly I've been missing.)
Now this issue came up
It’s definitely a problematic situation and I think it demonstrates how Mozilla
is drifting more and more from its manifesto and values towards a more
corporate and closed community. Mozilla embraces more closed practices today
than it did just a few years ago.
And it’s surely not benefitting t
Thank you for bringing this up Dão, this is something that has
been bothering me for a long time as well.
It used to be the case that supporting our community of
volunteers was somewhere at the fore of Mozilla's priorities (we
used to say "our community is our biggest strength"). It's
become clear
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:38 AM Dão Gottwald via governance <
governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
> AFAIK Slack is only available to Mozilla staff and volunteers who've signed
> our NDA. It's my understanding that communication at Mozilla should be open
> by default, and the rest is sufficiently
It's worth noting that there are reasonable open, company-backed
alternatives to Slack.
For example, https://zulipchat.com/ presents a Slack-like interface. It's
Apache2 licensed, allows for self-hosting, is backed by a company, has
web/desktop/android/iOS apps, and has the same service agreements
On 8/16/18 3:52 AM, Dão Gottwald via governance wrote:
> The use of Slack at Mozilla has bothered me for a while. So far I managed
> to pretty much ignore Slack. I feel left out sometimes but it hasn't been a
> big deal, as far as I can tell. (Of course, since I don't have an account,
> I don't kno
