Re: A unified agreement

2013-08-13 Thread Sheeri Cabral
ing into the systems you are agreeing to all this". Something that, like Stormy's honor code, is a *reminder*, but not necessarily a legal agreement that people have to then study and get their companies to agree to. -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin

Re: @mozilla.org email addresses for Mozilla Reps

2013-10-25 Thread Sheeri Cabral
;s a problem, we end up with a lot of unhappy Mozillians. The summit was 1/3 employees, 2/3 community members. If we give emails to everyone who made the cut for the summit, that would triple our current email infrastructure. Are we prepared to spend more time on the e-mail infrastructure to

Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell me this is a (bad) joke

2014-02-12 Thread Sheeri Cabral
- Original Message - From: "Benjamin Kerensa" Cc: mozilla-governa...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:29:11 AM Subject: Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell me this is a (bad) joke I have to say right now on Google+ and on other Social Media networks there are

Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell me this is a (bad) joke

2014-02-12 Thread Sheeri Cabral
- Original Message - From: "Michael Kelly" To: "Sheeri Cabral" Cc: mozilla-governa...@lists.mozilla.org, "Benjamin Kerensa" Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:08:09 AM Subject: Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell me this is a (bad) joke I do

Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell me this is a (bad) joke

2014-02-12 Thread Sheeri Cabral
- Original Message - From: "Benjamin Kerensa" To: "Majken Connor" Cc: "Sheeri Cabral" , "Michael Kelly" , mozilla-governa...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:25:21 AM Subject: Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell m

Re: Loss of freedom and integrity at Mozilla

2014-04-04 Thread Sheeri Cabral
It's definitely something that threw us off-balance. However, I don't understand how Mozilla is responsible for all the pressure that external forces like Team Rarebit and OK Cupid put on Brendan, that eventually caused him to step down. -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senio

Re: Mozilla has failed itself

2014-04-05 Thread Sheeri Cabral
orted is untrue. What can we do to convince people of the truth - that he stepped down because of *external* pressure, from companies like Team Rarebit and OK Cupid? -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla ___ governan

Re: Brendan Eich. Didn't Pres. O hold same position on same sex marriage in 2008? He still has a job... (unfortunately)

2014-04-05 Thread Sheeri Cabral
pressure, and not lack of internal support. I say this as an internal supporter of Brendan who believes in same-sex marriage. -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla - Original Message - From: ifbitd...@gmail.com To: mozilla-governa...@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Moderation policy

2014-04-07 Thread Sheeri Cabral
rected discussions. But I defend their right to say it. -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla - Original Message - From: "Mike Connor" To: "Gervase Markham" , mozilla-governa...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 10:50:56

Re: Brendan Eich

2014-04-07 Thread Sheeri Cabral
Dennis, It would absolutely NOT be appropriate for Mozilla to censure *anyone*. Mozilla believes in keeping the web open so that everyone can speak their mind, regardless of whether any individual agrees with what is being said. -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin

Re: Brendan Eich

2014-04-07 Thread Sheeri Cabral
ution." Also, I see you've pointed out that all the employees you listed are employees of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation is above Mozilla Corporation. Brendan was the CEO of Mozilla Corporation and wasn't the boss of any of the people you linked to. -Sheeri Cabral

Re: "Governed by meritocracy"?

2014-04-09 Thread Sheeri Cabral
e hand, someone from Engagement should talk to the petitioners and explain that we did not fire Brendan or coerce him to resign. On the other hand, if it's not really affecting usage, is it worth it? -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla - Original Message -

Re: "Governed by meritocracy"?

2014-04-09 Thread Sheeri Cabral
There was no noticeable drop in the past 2 weeks, but it took a while to interpret the data and account for the normal peaks and valleys, so we did not have any information until early this week. -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla - Original Message

Re: Creating a volunteer agreement

2014-05-30 Thread Sheeri Cabral
I agree with what others have said, and I'll throw in an alternative idea. Here's some changes I made, taking out redundancies (e.g. behaving appropriately is covered under the participation guidelines), and putting the "you can end your participation" part at the end. Because that's not the fi

Re: New governance module proposal: Firefox Data Collection

2014-08-15 Thread Sheeri Cabral
For the data quality and privacy sides, you probably want someone like Alex Fowler. (So, consider it a nomination). I'm happy to be a peer if having a DB-type person, who can handle the actual implementation, is useful. (if not I'm happy to stand back too). -Sheeri Cabral Manager,

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

2014-11-25 Thread Sheeri Cabral
> afaik punching a whole in the great firewall isn't that hard (openvpn > might be enough?) So if Mozilla really wants a fight providing something > better is at least theoretically possible. "Can't we just..." syndrome is particularly nasty when we are talking about cultural stuff we don't rea

Re: company-confidential or mozillian-confidential?

2015-04-13 Thread Sheeri Cabral
governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Data Team at Mozilla File a bug for the Data Team - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Data%20%26%20BI%20Services%20Team Find the Data team on #data on irc.mozilla.org

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

2015-05-12 Thread Sheeri Cabral
there location > > set > > > like so and fix it. > > > > > > Vladimir Krstic > > > ___ > > > governance mailing list > > > governance@lists.mozilla.org > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-17 Thread Sheeri Cabral
first version of the > Social API was Facebook only. Something has to go first, and > it's way easier to do that with a single partner for a v1. So you saying that it's more difficult runs contrary to what Mozilla has done historically, and successfully. -- -Sheeri Cabral

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-17 Thread Sheeri Cabral
ally give you a concrete reason not to trust themall you have now is speculation. -- -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Data Team at Mozilla File a bug for the Data Team - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Data%20%26%20BI%20Services%20Team Find the Data team on #data on irc.mozilla.org

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-17 Thread Sheeri Cabral
> On Jun 17, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Angly Cat wrote: > Mozilla isn't a cult or some sort of religion. The logic behind their > decisions needs to be explained to the community. Can it be explained though? It *was* explained over replies in the past few weeks, but not accepted as good enough explan

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-17 Thread Sheeri Cabral
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Dan Stillman wrote: > On 6/17/15 8:33 PM, Sheeri Cabral wrote: > Mozilla is both a company and one of the world's most successful > open-source projects. It's nice that you work for the former, but the rest > of us are trying to contribute t

governance@lists.mozilla.org

2012-09-19 Thread Sheeri Cabral
- Original Message - From: "David Bruant" But as said Henri Sivonen: "I think Mozilla would give a more truthful picture of its decision making if it didn't describe itself as a meritocracy." Maybe that instead of "meritocracy" we need to find (or create?) a better wording that take

Re: Firefox and Christmas

2012-12-26 Thread Sheeri Cabral
The reason? My conjecture is that Christian Christmas (the Dec. 25th one, as opposed to Greek or Russian Orthodox Christmas) is a holiday that Marketing believes is celebrated by a vast majority of our followers/fans/whatever. I'd bet they have plans to say "Happy New Year", too. Because a vast

Re: Request: Change mozilla policy about addons which are against web openness and users rights

2013-05-14 Thread Sheeri Cabral
e about human rights issues, but there's only so much we can police, and it would be awful if we made a mistake and rejected an addon that we *thought* was "bad" but is really "good", and accepted an addon that *looked* "good" but in reality was "bad&