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[tim]

I have a new piece up at Model View Culture: 'Killing the Messenger at Mozilla: Hero worship, “meritocracy” and the Eich crisis.'

Postscript:
I asked MVC to make the following edits to the article, based on comments made by graydon2 and Lukas:

1) change "former Mozilla COO Ryan Merkley" to "former Mozilla Foundation COO Ryan Merkley"
2) change "whether or not Mozilla should have a code of conduct (it never adopted one)" to "whether or not Mozilla should have a code of conduct (it never adopted one, instead adopting a weak set of community participation guidelines)"

Comments

[graydon2]

Minor nit re: "... whether or not Mozilla should have a code of conduct (it never adopted one)"

We adopted a thing called the community participation guidelines, which I'm quite critical of for its promotion of false equivalences and whitewashing of oppression, but it's what people will point to as the outcome of that earlier episode.

Also moz.governance is not internal. It's a public newsgroup, all sorts of people can post, there's no level of mozilla-ness required, org, corp, volunteer or otherwise.

Otherwise solid writing.

[tim]

Yeah, I don't consider the community participation guidelines to be a code of conduct -- it's hard not to think that not calling it a code of conduct was deliberate, but more substantively, it fails the test suggested by the Geek Feminism wiki. In my mind, I had been over that already (the article was much, much longer before Shanley's capable editing), but you're right that it provides an opportunity for nitpicking, so I asked her to change it (as per my edit to this post).

Re "internal", what I meant by that is that for the most part, only people involved in the Mozilla project (not just paid staff, of course) would care :-)

Thanks!