This topic was created because the previous topic was too much for people to go through.
A summary of the questions and answers provided
Why are the reps application bugs private?
What are the questions that are still open?
Leaving this empty because rhetorical questions are being considered as literal questions by the people who are responding. Converting most of the questions into problems because the questions are actually about problems.
What are the problems that we want to solve?
Selection criteria is vague
Explanation what the applicant has done regarding mobilizing communities (regional or functional), can also be outside of mozilla
What is it that is being looked for in the applicant? Is organizing events the criteria? If yes, what size should the event be?
Does mobilizing people over internet count? If yes, how do you measure that? Is the size of mailing list/telegram groups a good indicator?
Is the impact produced the indicator that is being asked for? How is this impact measured?
Should outside of mozilla be in communities that are relevant to mozilla’s mission? Or does any kind of mobilization of any community count?
How is this criteria connected to the other criteria: “What are the most important achievements of the applicant in the past 12 months in the mozilla community or in Open Source in general”
Should they be related? Can they be different?
Does the applicant have a focus area regarding mobilizing the community?
Should the applicant have one? If yes, what are considered as focus areas? Could there be a few examples?
Explanation if the applicant already organized or joined other mozilla events, also can be from other open source initiatives
What does this mean? Is this asking about event attendance? Is there a time frame that is being asked for?
Explanation of what the applicant learned on helping the community or projects that the applicant joined in the past
What is expected here? Could sample answers be provided?
Explanation of how the Reps program will enable the applicant to achieve his goals inside Mozilla and his/her local community
Could we change the language here to be more inclusive?
Can this put near the criterion about goals so that there is an easy to follow flow for the criteria?
What are the most important achievements of the applicant in the past 12 months in the mozilla community or in Open Source in general
What is the purpose of this question? What is being expected of the applicant here? Is it the activity in the last 12 months that is being questioned?
The applicant needs to be active within Mozilla for at least 6 months
Please clarify this (see the text about rejection message below) whether this refers to last 6 months or any 6 months in the past.
Also, please clarify what is considered as activity. How is objectivity brought into this criterion?
How knowledgeable is the applicant about the Mozilla project, our mission and our values?
This cannot be objectively assessed.
Application bug form doesn’t help applicants fill everything required for selection criteria
The application bug form (maybe due to technical restraints) is sparse and doesn’t really help people make a successful application. They are expected to have the selection criteria open in another page and make sure they put in links/comments for everything that is mentioned on that page. This may not be inclusive, especially for people who aren’t experienced enough to understand how selection criteria works.
There is no customized/personalized rejection messages
Rejection messages seem to be copy-pasted. If every individual has been screened objectively, there should be an objective score card of which items they passed and which items they didn’t.
The generic rejection message is inconsistent with the selection criteria
we reviewed your application and we think that you are not ready to become a Rep.
As Rep is important to have clear goals and experience to accomplish them and in your application, this seems not clear now.Sadly this wasn’t really aligned in your application and there is no activity for the last 6 months. We suggest to you to wait before applying again and try to get involved more in Mozilla in a specific area, to be ready for the role as a community mobilizer or functional doer and get more experience.
Thank you for contributing to Mozilla and we hope to see your application in the near future
This is the rejection message that I’ve seen character to character same in three different rejected applications.
As Rep is important to have clear goals and experience to accomplish them and in your application, this seems not clear now.
If this is important, perhaps it should be a question. (It is mentioned in criteria, but not in this language of compulsion)
there is no activity for the last 6 months
This is not mentioned in the selection criteria at all. There is one point that says “active in mozilla for 6 months” and another point that says “active in the last 12 months”. Neither of them are about activity for the last 6 months.
get more experience
This isn’t appropriate or respectful. Many people are rejected not for not having experience, but for not having activity in the last n months. Asking them to “get more experience” sounds very very arrogant. If you can take a lesson from this entire outrage of mine, please correct this one phrase.
