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| {{note|This list has now been triaged, and Mitchell has [https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2013/04/18/mozilla-manifesto-towards-1-0/ blogged about the proposals chosen to be taken forward].}}
| | This is a list of changes we plan to make to the Mozilla Manifesto, and its presentation, to move it from 0.9 to 1.0. |
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| This is a list of possible changes to make to the Mozilla Manifesto to move it from 0.9 to 1.0. It began as an attempt to capture all concrete proposals I could extract from the write-ups of the interactive sessions in 2012, and was then classified into 3 categories by a meeting on 2013-02-21. | |
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| The 3 categories are "Recommended", "Requires Further Discussion" and "Not Recommended", which should be self-explanatory.
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| '''Against''': this sort of communication may not be appropriate for these two channels. | | '''Against''': this sort of communication may not be appropriate for these two channels. |
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| There was no consensus on these topics, and/or the issues they raise were considered to be "above our pay grade".
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| ===Change "the Internet" to "the web" throughout===
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| '''Rationale''': People understand and identify with "the web" more than "the internet". We talk about "the open web" a lot - "Webmaker", "the web is the platform" and so on.
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| '''Proposal''': Replace all instances of "the Internet" with "the web" (lower-case w).
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| '''Against''': The Internet is more than the web - email, IM, apps, games and media centres all use the Internet but not necessarily the web, and the wider Mozilla community (and others we want to agree to the manifesto) have interests here. We need these two words to remain distinct, and we should use the right one. Also, switching terms will be read by others as a narrowing of focus by Mozilla, and as abandonment by some parts of our own community. Counter-proposal: use the shorter and snappier "net" instead of "Internet".
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| The issue here is one of the fundamental purpose of Mozilla, and so the discussion group felt that we were not in a position to resolve it.
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| ===Add reference to "making great products"===
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| '''Rationale''': making something great that people want is central to our impact and a big source of our power.
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| '''Proposal''': Add an 11th principle covering this.
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| '''Against''': this is a core tactic and strategy that Mozilla uses to achieve its goals, but making products is not a goal in itself. It's already covered by the "Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto" section below the manifesto itself.
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| ===Update manifesto page to be more interactive===
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| '''Rationale''': we're not in 1998 any more; the web has awesome capabilities and we should make use of them.
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| '''Proposal''': audit the manifesto for places where appropriate, long-lived links to Mozilla activities can be inserted. Brainstorm other options for interactive elements.
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| '''Against''': The US Constitution was not hyperlinked. It distracts from the gravitas. Also, the manifesto is supposed to be bigger than Mozilla; linking to Mozilla stuff damages that. And interactive elements pulling in content from today's web will be outdated or irrelevant tomorrow.
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| ===Allow people to add comments===
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| '''Rationale''': We want people to give feedback on the document.
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| '''Proposal''': either link to placeholder blog post with comment section, or embed comment section below manifesto (one per language).
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| '''Against''': the 1.0 manifesto is a static work, not a blog post for discussion; we don't want someone's asinine comment appended below it for ever more; we don't have an embeddable comment solution until the Persona-based one is done.
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| ===Bring Mozilla's daily activities to the page===
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| '''Rationale''': we want to show the daily work of the Mozilla project bringing the manifesto principles to bear on the real world.
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| '''Proposal''': Display Planet or other RSS feed in a sidebar.
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| '''Against''': the manifesto is supposed to be timeless; having feed content there works against that impression. Also, there isn't a single particularly suitable feed; Planet is too noisy.
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