Le 26/12/2012 10:45, Gervase Markham a écrit :
On 25/12/12 21:47, Majken Connor wrote:
Hi all. I have some concerns about the posts on the official facebook
and
twitter accounts.
For those not on Facebook and/or Twitter, and for clarity, would you
mind quoting the posts you are concerned about?
I also don't see the posts
What is/should the policy be in terms of how we use cultural
celebrations
to promote firefox, especially in light of the community guidelines?
I would be surprised and disappointed if the community guidelines were
actively used to try and make Mozilla a culture or religion-free zone.
As well as being impossible, the attempt would IMO be damaging and
lead to sterility in our personal interactions.
I'm balanced on this point.
Before going any further, I wish to say that I'm aware that what I'm
about to say may be controversial. By saying it, I don't mean to hurt
anyone. I'm describing and analyzing based on my personal experience,
which I know is biaised, uneven, incomplete and inaccurate. Feel free to
correct what I write if you feel I'm mistaken.
I come from France. I've spent a year in California during my studies.
From my experience (I could be wrong because I haven't experienced 100%
of the US), the sterility in personal interactions is a "default"
attitude in the US.
This got me thinking a lot. If I was asked an explanation (and I could
be completely wrong here too), it would be that the US were formed
through lots of immigration waves, bringing people from different
cultures, different contexts I would even say. In order for some many
different people to cohabit, it seems natural that they had to agree on
common grounds to say "hello", things to eat at events, etc. At every
event I went to in the US, there was at least vegetarian food for instance.
At MozFest 2011, IIRC, meals were vegan and gluten-free. That a common
denominator so that people from most known religions and with most known
allergies eat safely according to their eating restrictions. Now, the
MozFest organization could have set up 2 or 3 different menus, some with
meat, some with pork, but that would have probably been much more
annoying to organize.
A common denominator is the best chance to be offense-free. I agree with
you that there is some loss (what you call "sterility") in the choice of
a common denominator, but at the same time, what's the alternative? How
do you prevent people from being offended in a public communication
while keeping some cultural aspects that may offend people from
different cultures?
I don't think policy or community guideline can be a solution here.
Handing off the keys to the public communication accounts to a
multi-cultural group of mozillians who will have to agree through
consensus (without necessarily voting) may be.
All the best,
David
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