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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Benjamin,<br>
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I agree it is important to have someone on the job that has
experience with open source communities, of course we would enjoy
someone who knows the heartbeat of Mozilla as well. We are working
on getting the job requisitions written and published and would
very much appreciate if you could send people our way once we are
able to accept job applications.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Philipp<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,<br>
<br>
Just to chime in if the council is so interested I could connect
the council with a number of friends and colleagues including
MoCo Alumni who have done Community Management professionally
<div>as I think it would be important to consult someone who has
worn such a hat on OSS to build a good job description to
ensure TB gets the perfect candidate but also gets good value
out of the candidate it hires or contracts with.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:16 AM,
Philipp Kewisch <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:mozilla@kewis.ch" target="_blank"
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Thunderbird Community,<br>
<br>
On Thursday the new Thunderbird Council met the first time
to discuss<br>
how we want to spend the next term. We all agree there is a
lot to do<br>
and we need to make sure that there is noticeable progress
within the<br>
next months.<br>
<br>
First of all, we started with some administrative issues. As
the council<br>
is newly formed, the roles that needed to be filled were the
council<br>
chair, the treasurer, and a secretary that makes sure that
all decisions<br>
are documented. I am pleased to announce the following
results:<br>
<br>
* Philipp Kewisch will serve as council chair, replacing
Magnus Melin<br>
* Kent James will continue to serve as the treasurer<br>
* The chair will also serve as secretary and document
decisions<br>
<br>
I would like to thank Kent for taking the time to continue
his role and<br>
Magnus for his previous work as the council chair. I am
honored to have<br>
support from my fellow council members and look forward to
serving the<br>
community in this role.<br>
<br>
Further on, we started discussion around hiring more
contractors to<br>
allow us to make progress with Thunderbird. While there are
many roles<br>
needed, it would be impossible to hire for all of them at
once. We<br>
therefore will follow a layered approach of hiring by
priority.<br>
<br>
We have determined that aside from the infrastructure
engineer we have<br>
already hired, it is important to have someone available for
build and<br>
release work. This capacity is required to empower the
community to make<br>
progress with Thunderbird. Without working releases,
contributions by<br>
the community cannot be presented to our users. Aside from
attending to<br>
the build issues we face with almost every beta and release,
the goal<br>
should be to move to a more modern release runner, which
could be<br>
TaskCluster. The details are not yet determined.<br>
<br>
We will also be looking to hire a community manager. With
this position<br>
we aim to make the project more accessible to Thunderbird
users. The<br>
community manager would be responsible for making sure
contributors feel<br>
welcome and have access to the information they need to get
started. In<br>
addition this contractor will be writing blog posts and
using social<br>
media to interact with both contributors and users to keep
them informed<br>
about Thunderbird's progress and involve them in community
activities.<br>
This role could either be part time as a pure community
manager, or full<br>
time where the second part would be an administrative
support role to<br>
the council.<br>
<br>
As a next step we will be creating job requisitions for
these roles and<br>
start the process required to get this approved. If you know
someone<br>
that would come into consideration for this role, please
give them a<br>
heads up that we will soon be hiring. There are also further
roles we<br>
are considering. We've scheduled another meeting next week
where we will<br>
continue our discussion around hiring and delve into other
topics for<br>
the future of Thunderbird.<br>
<br>
We will keep you posted on our discussions so you can follow
along. If<br>
you have feedback please do let us know, we are looking
forward to<br>
hearing from you.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- Philipp, on behalf of the Thunderbird Council<br>
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