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[Francisco Picolini]

Hi mentors,

Today I received an application from a Mozilla staff who wants to join
the program.

I don't know in which way this person can take benefit from the reps
program. I mean, he doesn't need to request a budget, nor planning an
event to reinforce his community.

I'm not confident in accept this person for this reasons, but I will
wait for your opinions as always ;)

Any comment will be highly appreciated.

Best.
--
Francisco Picolini

Miembro de Mozilla Hispano
@mozilla_hispano
mozilla-hispano.org
Remo Mentor
https://reps.mozilla.org/u/FrancJP/

[Emma Irwin]

Hi Francisco,

I'll give you my thoughts on this having, approved one such application,
and asked the other to reapply later. These are my personal opinions, so
also welcome feedback.

1) Approved
I approved a Mozilla employee who had experience contributing to the
Mozilla project prior to becoming an employee, and still contributed time
(non-paid) to the project. She had a clear vision of what she wanted to do
as a Rep, how she would go about it (there were no other reps in her area)
and the metrics of success. Clearly her vision for Rep work went above and
beyond what she can accomplish in her employee role(which is not in public
engagement)

2) Not Approved
A Mozilla employee who had never contributed to the project . And when I
say contributed I mean - volunteered. He was passionate about the project
but had no open source contributions in other communities either. That's
not to say employees are not awesome in the passion they provide to
Mozilla, just that there was no experience in the community. He did not
have a clear vision of what he wanted to do as a Rep. He has since
connected with another Rep and is gaining experience (so next application
will likely be successful)


I really think, like non-employees, this is a person-by-person evaluation.
Best of luck, I know I labored over employee decisions as well - tricky
ones :)

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[Henrik Mitsch]

Hi Francisco,

I hope I don't get this wrong, but instead of asking "in which way this person can benefit from the program"
I would ask:

What can this person contribute to Reps?

This is a question we ask all people who apply. It should be applicable independently of whether or not somebody is an employee. After all, I guess this is just a different way to say the same thing Emma already replied.

Regards,
Henrik

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[Majken Connor]

We need to ask both questions, I think, to get the right picture.

We shouldn't make assumptions about whether or not an employee already has
financial support for their events. That's not how it works. We need to
know more about what this person plans to do with the reps resources to
understand why they want to be a rep and see what they're planning to
contribute.

[Pierros Papadeas]

To Henx point,

I think the value of having such people joining Reps is to raise
visibility of their community building activities. Apart from budget
and swag requests, Reps provide a solid documentation and
discoverability platform for community activities and getting those
people to include their activities in Reps benefit both "sides" (not
really sides but you know what i mean)

~p

[Francisco Picolini]

Thanks for all the feedback, I appreciate it.

In any case, I proposed to have a meeting/interview in order to analyze
his postulation.

Best.

El 07/05/13 10:46, Pierros Papadeas escribió: