Hi all,
I like the idea, especially the one with creating a knowledge base of
best practices from those who already passed on their leadership roles.
Sometimes it is not so easy in certain areas (I see for example from
my experience, and I know closely others where is more difficult) to
simply pass on your role. Finding the right person or the right group of
people can take a lot of time. And a knowledge base could help define
some good practices.
But I'm not sure about the term Emeritus. In Wikipedia it is defined as:
"It is also commonly used in business and nonprofit organizations to
denote perpetual status of the founder of an organization or individuals
who moved the organization to new heights as a former key member on the
board of directors (e.g., chairman emeritus; director emeritus;
president of the board emeritus)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeritus
Emeritus basically means retired (which it is not something that fits
with the dynamic and complex nature of an ecosystem as Mozilla).
Maybe thinking about expanding something like the badges concept?
Scouts may be a good model to study for example. Or community centers or
student organizations?
For those who come at the Mozilla Festival, there is going to be a
session which tries to find some answers to "open governance" questions:
http://mozillafestival.org/schedule/sessions/open-governance-methods-from-open-communities-adapted-to-projects-and-innovation/
(probably interesting to learn from others).
Just my first thoughts.
-Alina
Ah, on looking closer I see that the Eclipse Emeritus status in Ecplise
is not for everyone who passes on leadership. For that they have
Alumni. Hmm, our case will be a bit different. In our case someone
could stop being a module owner but still be very active in our
community and thus not necessarily an alumni. We hope that passing on
authority allows a bunch of people to do new things within mozilla.
Ugh, that means we might be using the same words to mean different
things .... worth considering if Emeritus is the right word . . . .
though I'm reasonably sure alumni isn't quite it.
mitchell
On 11/7/12 7:50 PM, Mitchell Baker wrote:
Wow, this is a great tip. Thanks! I'm temped to adopt it ver batim.
It's great. and I like the idea of open source projects using standard
techniques and practices.
many thanks!
mitchell
On 11/7/12 7:30 PM, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
I think this is a great idea that has some precedent in the open
source community. Here's a link to the Eclipse committer emeritus page.
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/committers-emeritus.php
Lawrence
----- Original Message -----
Over the years we've identified a few specific roles at Mozilla.
These
are described in the Roles and Responsibilities document
(http://www.mozilla.org/about/roles.html). I'd like to update this
document in general to reflect the Mozilla project today. That's a
task
that will take some work and you'll see from me about this in the
coming
months.
For now, I'm proposing we add a new role or status. I'd like to be
able
to recognize people who have built something at Mozilla and then
passed
on their authority. This will give us a way to describe people
after
it is no longer accurate to say "I'm the module owner" or community
leader or other activities. I'm thinking we'd attach a year to it.
So someone would be something like "[Name of module or similar
activity]
Module Owner Emeritus, 2012.", The year would be the date the person
passed on their leadership to someone else. I'm inclined start with
the
present, and work our way backwards in time.
We cold make an Emeritus Roll, where we list people, including a link
to
the materials that show *how* and when they passed on their
authority.
This would allow others to learn, and allow us to point to the ones
that
seem the best learning examples as reference material.
Thoughts?
Mitchell
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