commit: 9ecb86193a7aba381e3d82dbc4dd84354c0eb6c3
parent be197e6aa09b9fd53178a3300fc4caf1fa92a952
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:25:26 +0200
articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members: New
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+<entry>
+<title>Mozilla Foundation has no members</title>
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members"/>
+<id>https://hacktivis.me/articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members</id>
+<published>2024-06-25T15:07:25Z</published>
+<updated>2024-06-25T15:07:25Z</updated>
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+<content type="xhtml">
+<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" class="h-entry">
+<p>
+ Once again I was wondering why Mozilla was so out of touch with it's community.
+ And after looking around well of course it is:
+</p>
+
+Retranscribed from <a href="https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pdf">Bylaws of Mozilla Foundation</a> (found at <a href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/">Mozilla Foundation - Public Records</a>):
+<blockquote>
+ <h2>ARTICLE II</h2>
+ <h3>MEMBERS</h3>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Section 2.1 Members.</strong>
+ This Foundation shall have no members.
+ </p>
+ <h2>ARTICLE III</h2>
+ <h3>BOARD OF DIRECTORS</h3>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Section 3.1 Powers.</strong>
+ Subject to the provisions of law, the activities and affairs of the
+ Foundation shall be conducted and all corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the
+ direction of the Board of Directors. […]
+ </p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+ That explains so much.
+ Mozilla Foundation isn't community-based, it's just executives.
+ Not even regular contributors / committers have any voice over the Mozilla Foundation decisions.
+ Which also means that the Mozilla Foundation board isn't elected, there's no members after all.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ Yuck.
+ At least there is other organisations and communities when it comes to internet activism.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ By the way this ended up being an article rather than a bookmark as the Bylaws of Mozilla Foundation is a scan, so not actual text, and I'd rather have at least a part of this document be accessible.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+</content>
+</entry>
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build articles/libre-software-security-disclosure.html: article entry.xsl articles/libre-software-security-disclosure.xml
+build articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members.html: article entry.xsl articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members.xml
build articles/self-hosting.html: article entry.xsl articles/self-hosting.xml
build articles/wasm-hype-wish.html: article entry.xsl articles/wasm-hype-wish.xml
diff --git a/feed.atom.in b/feed.atom.in
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<updated>2024-02-26T05:44:00Z</updated>
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diff --git a/home.shtml b/home.shtml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
<p>List of articles, newest first:</p>
<ol class="indexlist">
<!-- new.sh: new articles here -->
+ <li>2024-06-25: <a href="/articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members">Mozilla Foundation has no members</a></li>
<li>2024-06-23: <a href="/articles/bootstrap-initrd">bootstrap-initrd: A self-building environment based on tcc+musl</a></li>
<li>2024-02-26: <a href="/articles/libre-software-security-disclosure">Security Disclosures for Libre Software</a></li>
<li>2024-02-09: <a href="/articles/firefox-begone">Firefox Begone</a></li>
