Handling Disagreements in Open Collaborative Projects

UPDATE 2023-03-29: The piece below was originally written in 2006, and has been cited by Dave Herman of Mozilla Research as an influence on Rust community governance. I’ve fixed dead links where possible. This article is an outgrowth of my personal experiences as a participant in the Mozilla project working to create policies for the project that are both reasonable in terms of addressing the presumed problem at hand and acceptable to the various people who have a perceived stake in how the problem is addressed. In the course of doing that I evolved my own personal approach to approaching the problem of creating policies in an environment where people might disagree deeply about what such policies should be. ...

2006-06-23 · 22 min · Frank Hecker

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2006/06/16

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the weeks ending May 26, June 2, June 9, and June 16, 2006. I should be back on my regular weekly update schedule next week. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the past few weeks: Feed icon. I published multiple blog posts on the topic of the feed icon (aka RSS icon), including draft usage guidelines and an accompanying FAQ. I also initiated the process of abandoning the previously-submitted trademark registration application for the icon. ...

2006-06-21 · 4 min · Frank Hecker

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2006/06/09

I got behind in doing the weekly Mozilla Foundation activity reports (for which I apologize); see the report for the week ending June 16, 2006 for activities during this week and the others I skipped.

2006-06-21 · 1 min · Frank Hecker

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2006/06/02

I got behind in doing the weekly Mozilla Foundation activity reports (for which I apologize); see the report for the week ending June 16, 2006 for activities during this week and the others I skipped.

2006-06-21 · 1 min · Frank Hecker

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2006/05/26

I got behind in doing the weekly Mozilla Foundation activity reports (for which I apologize); see the report for the week ending June 16, 2006 for activities during this week and the others I skipped.

2006-06-21 · 1 min · Frank Hecker