Re: Renewals

[Gael Chamoulaud <strider gnome org>]

Hi all,

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:57:42PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've looked at the membership list today. There are 170 people who need
> to renew their membership before the referendum starts (and ~60 people
> who'll need to renew before the elections start). People may remember
> that we had a renewal period for all members two years ago and now,
> all those members have to renew too.

> This will represent a huge amount of renewals we'll need to process
> in a short lapse of time. According to the current membership
> guidelines, renewals are automatically accepted. This is why I'd like
> to propose the following:
>
>   * we send a mail telling people that their membership has ended (or
>     will end soon) and that if they want to renew their membership,
>     they just have to fill the application form with name, e-mail and
>     choose the "previous GNOME Foundation member" option
>
>   * when we receive the application, we verify that the person was a
>     member and simply reply something like "Dear member, your renewal
>     has been accepted. Please verify that you are subscribed to
>     foundation-announce with your current e-mail address."
>
> And then, we mark the membership as renewed.
> What do you think?

I'm ok on this procedure...

Best regards,

Gael