Summit 2013 - Concerns

[Rodrigo Padula]

Hello council members,

Today I received the invitation to attend the summit in Toronto - Canada
and I have some concerns.

I believe that there was a problem filtering the applications and all
Brazilians who applied were accepted.

I met several people I know personally who have never made any
contribution to Mozilla and are selected in the list.

Including people who have never participated in our community, and never
even sent an email list of Brazilian community.

I have also seen people who have been marked not to participate in the
next Mozilla events due to non-cooperation and even their applications
were refused on the Mozilla Reps.

I guess that we from the Brazilian community can help to filter that
list and save a lot of Mozilla's money, because based on that list,
there are a lot of people that will only travel for free!

If that people are here around us and don't contribute, I believe that
they don't deserve to travel supported by Mozilla.

This is very important as those who deserve will get frustrated and
unmotivated, since mozilla is recognizing people that did not helped
Mozilla or the local community.

The other question is, all Brazilians will need Visa do go to Canada or
USA, so, everyone in that list will need a formal invitation letter.

Keep in touch if you need any help with that issues!

Best regards

Rodrigo Padula

[William Quiviger]

Hi Rodrigo,

thanks for reaching out.

A few comments:

1) as for *all* Mozilla events, the invitation list is not perfect, there will *always* be names falling through the cracks and there will always be people who probably should not have been invited. That is a fact and until we have proper community management tools, this will always be the case.

2) 1000 people joined the "summit2013" group and 800 were selected. That means 200 people did NOT make the cut (including half a dozen Brazilians)

3) 36 community builders (aka stewards) + 9 Mozilla Reps council members reviewed this list. That's 45 people who regularly engage with volunteers around the world who reviewed this list for a period of 2 weeks.

4) the voting process was far from perfect but we did our best with the tools we have at our disposal and the extremely tight deadline we had. I think that rather than focusing on those people who "should not" be invited, i think we should focus our energy on identifying those people who should have been invited and did not receive an invitation.

5) I urge you not to spend too much time worrying about those people who you think should not be invited. I think you should focus more on the event itself, on the unique opportunity to be meeting hundreds of other Mozillians from around the world at an event that promises to be a very exciting one.

6) for visas, the summit planning team is very well aware of the challenge :)

- w

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