{"id":1025,"date":"2013-05-24T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:53:49","slug":"the-difficult-task-of-deciding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2013\/05\/24\/the-difficult-task-of-deciding\/","title":{"rendered":"The difficult task of deciding."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we invited over 880 of our amazing volunteer contributors to the 2013 Mozilla Summit<\/a>.\u00a0 These people, along with our paid-staff, will come this event from countries all over the world (I’m sheepish to admit I had to look up one or two) to do something incredibly important and meaningful to all of us (and to have a ton of fun.)<\/p>\n

I think it’s important at this point to share publicly how we decided on the 880.\u00a0 Below is a note that was sent out to our Mozilla Reps yesterday:<\/p>\n

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“As\u00a0you know, invitations have been sent out for the Mozilla Summit 2013.\u00a0 As for all large contributor events at Mozilla, the invitation process\u00a0is a big challenge since our community is constantly growing and\u00a0evolving. The priority is *always* to make sure we have as fair a\u00a0selection process as possible and we don’t forget anyone.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The reality is (as with any event or activity with a large scale), there is a high likelihood that a few names that would fall through the cracks. There was an intense effort on our part to reduce this to a minimum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For those wondering how the final invitation list was established, here’s a brief recap:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0first step in selecting invitees to the Summit was to ask volunteer\u00a0Mozillians interested in attending the summit to join the “summit2013\u201d\u00a0group on their mozillians.org profile page. We gave Mozillians a few\u00a0weeks to do that and sent out multiple reminders across several communication channels.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The next step was to ask one community builder (aka Steward)\u00a0from *each* functional area at Mozilla and all Mozilla Reps Council members to thoroughly review the list of all those who had joined\u00a0 “summit2013” and cast a vote for each name. The criteria was\u00a0straightforward: vote for those Mozillians you feel have made a\u00a0meaningful contribution to the project these past 6 months and who you\u00a0feel should participate in the Summit. We ended up with 45 people\u00a0reviewing a list of close to 1,000 names. To be as effective and\u00a0efficient as possible, the ReMo webdev team created a very simple tool\u00a0to help make the voting process as easy but as thorough as possible.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0tool enabled reviewers to quickly skim through the mozillians.org\u00a0profile of each person and gave four voting options: “No”, “Skip”,\u00a0 “Probably” and “Definitely”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For\u00a03 weeks, all 45 reviewers had the opportunity to review the list and\u00a0 vote. When voting closed, each name had a final voting score, which\u00a0determined whether or not they would make the cut and be invited to the\u00a0summit. The criteria was as follows:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n