A few pieces of email feedback I’ve received:
(1)
The “one or more product areas” can be a slippery slope as it relates to the Work Week. The Work Week is currently optimized to be with one functional team - if you try to participate in QA/l10n/Webmaker you miss the arc of narrative that is happening. The main conversations that you need to hear will be happening in that room, and if you keep having contributors leave to go elsewhere I think you are doing a disservice to the functional team area that invited them. I already saw that happen in Whistler and in Portland to some extent.
To me the commitment for Orlando should be to one functional area, and if time permits, to visit with other functional team/areas. But IMO for the lion’s share of time you should be working with the team that invited you. If we are only getting face time with community 1 time per 6 months, then we have to optimize for working with them during the course of the week.
(2)
mozillians.org profiles can be a bit problematic in some cases, as some community members have themselves listed as “Mozilla for X years” when they really haven’t been part of the community that long. As far as vouchers, we should be taking a close look at who from our side is actually vouching for them vs. those only in their community
(3)
Having some sort of transparent communication around the ways people get to Mozfest (such as being a contributor of the foundation projects or running a session) will help minimize any potential issues.
(4)
Is there a process for reps who have submitted a session?