Initially, one of the issues that arose about the Community Giving program related to whether or not Mozilla Corporation could legally give in-kind support to volunteers who would then might use the donation to work on matters related directly to Mozilla and its software. Although we suspected we were OK, we thought it would be [...]
As a first step, we emailed a small sample of volunteers from the QA community to understand their needs and have been collecting their responses. As mentioned in an earlier post, we will continue to reach out across our the community to see how we can help everyone. But, for now, I thought it would [...]
“The Community Giving Program will use a portion of Mozilla revenue to support and strengthen the activities of the Mozilla community. We will start by reaching out to our dedicated community contributors. As the program grows, we will look to expand to supporting new contributors and new projects.”
As always, I encourage everyone to comment and [...]
We have been thinking lately about writing a very clear mission statement for the giving program that will help guide us going forward. From one of Mitchell’s earlier posts, she wrote:
“The goal of such a program is to learn if and how we can use some of the Firefox revenue to support and strengthen the [...]
I have updated the FAQ post with some new questions. Some of my answers are intentionally left open-ended because I would really like to hear what you think. As we iterate, I will gather all the ideas and gain consensus on how we move forward. Please review the FAQ post.
For those who have not had a chance, please take a look at some of the comments about my last post, Groupings and subgroupings. These were all great and have helped me refine how we are going to start the process. Please keep sending your remarks.
As for the groups we discussed in the [...]
We’ve made some mention about how the community giving program will begin by reaching out to key volunteer contributors. Our first step has been to think about how to break up contributors into groups, and so we’re looking at various communities within the larger Mozilla ecosystem. My initial thought was that we could divide our [...]
A good question arose from my last post that some may have seen:
In the early phases of the discussion, there was the plan to have multiple channels/processes for this community giving project. What’s the current thinking on that?
We plan to start with some communities we know could use support, like Q/A teams, software developers, and [...]
New questions continue to appear, so I am updating the FAQs. Please have a look at the end of this list for new thoughts on our issues.
What is the Community Giving Program?
The program is just starting, so in many ways, we are defining it right now as we move along. Reading this blog regularly will [...]
Three weeks ago, Mitchell introduced me as a new member of the Mozilla community who would be helping to figure out just how our organization would design a community-giving program. As a newcomer to the open source software world, it has been a tremendous three weeks for me to learn about Mozilla, our community, and [...]
