Hello all,
As a former Reps council and I was responsible for the onboarding process, I would step in and clear up some points about the process. I would not go through the infinite questions one by one, but I would explain how is the process going so far.
How is the Reps process working?
- Application process (This screening phase doesn’t mean you are official Rep when you are accepted)
- Onboarding process (Preparation for Reps program which takes 3 months)
Application process:
- Fill in the application
- When you fill the application, the most important thing to look at is the selection criteria document: Reps/Application Process/Selection Criteria - MozillaWiki.
- vouchers by fellow Mozillians
- Yes we see here three vouchers
- Moved to the screening process
- Yes he was moved to the screening process
- Review application by onboarding team
Before starting the review I would clarify some points first
What is mobilized community?
In case you missed this post:Reps as mobilizers in the Mozilla Community just refresh our mind 
1.finding and connecting new talent with Mozilla projects
2.growing in their mobilizing and coaching skills
3.supporting their local communities and the rest of the organization to reach their goals and be more effective and
4.creating collaborations with other local communities in an effort to expand Mozilla’s mission and Mozilla’s outreach in the open source ecosystem
The most important definitions are here:
- trusted: Mozillians will feel good sharing information intended just for internal use and they keep it that way.
- aligned: We refer as alignment or aligned to the people who have a clear understanding on where Mozilla is right now, what are the current needs/priorities for the organization and as a result they plan their activities to bring value to these high level goals.
- committed: People with proven past record on their accountability and support to the activities delivered inside the organization.
This mobilized community definitions is very important to know when people review the applications, and when people are applying for the Reps program.
How Onboarding team review ?
We concentrate more in this part of the selection criteria
Application request needs to contain the answers to the following items:, Which are fairly listed in the selection criteria and is open to everyone to read through and think about each point, what would be needed from the application to align in his/her application.
As a volunteer doing the review for the onboarding process, I don’t see Joice having goals related to mobilizing community or any leadership goal, I listed all the points in his bug application. IMHO the person shouldn’t be offended because he/she got rejected. When I put myself in his shoes, yes it feels sad if he is excited about it, but I received fair points why I have been rejected and I would work on those in the next 6 months and apply again.
As other people mentionned this was a good way (not the best and it can be better) to improve the reps program and have qualified leaders. Joice always can apply again, he learned from this time what is expected and millions of people learned from his experience what is expected. When he has a clear goal, as the only goal I can see is he decided to join the community as a Rep because of social situations have been addressed in India, this is not a goal, it’s a reason and we focus on goals and plans of people.
I would mention here that Reps/Reps council are not arrogant, they are volunteer they are providing a good quality of time from their lives to reply to people, follow up their process, make things better, and I think the minimal thing as an outcome from each other is to appreciate this time and the work have been done.
Please let’s be more mature, and see things objectively not with our hearts, Joice is a talented person from what he has done outside of Mozilla organization with other open source community, and it’s clearly his base/primary contribution is localization, maybe he can start from there to think how he can mobilize the community and apply again for Reps program, EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE SUPPORT OF REPS COUNCILS not matter what happens. We just need to be aligned and see things from the same/right angel.
Cheers!
Manel