Mozilla was created as “Open by Identity”: a virtual organization of which internal employees and external (paid and unpaid) contributors are equal participants. The failures of its “open by default” model in practice are merely symptoms of having lost this identity. #yallhands
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Replying to @fantasai
The Open Innovation team has good goals but I’m glad to hear you pushed back on this. I tried to advise them that “open by default” isn’t the enemy, and a bit disappointed to hear that framing persists.
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Replying to @littlecalculist @fantasai
IMO it’s actually ok that Mozilla is a company and some of its activities will be proprietary. I don’t expect the search deals to be operated through community for example. But that doesn’t mean abandoning open governance entirely!
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Replying to @littlecalculist @fantasai
Distinguishing proprietary products from community products should mean a net *increase* in openness, not a regression.
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Replying to @littlecalculist @fantasai
I should be quiet since I’m not there. I just mostly wanted to thank you for advocating for increased community ownership
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Replying to @littlecalculist @fantasai
Nice discussion. never heard “Open by Identity”, but feels worth re-establishing. My XP with “Open by Default” was Firefox OS. we worked openly (github, wikis, discourse), but lacked framework and accountability for accepting contributions. open requires understanding why && how
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Replying to @mikehenrty @littlecalculist
“Open by Identity” answers why: you simply do not draw a distinction between outside contributors and internal ones, they are all part of your team. Facilitating your teammate's work is part of your job, so of course you help each other. The how comes out of that motivation.
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I am struggling to find anything useful to add. You nailed it.
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