Re: GNOME Membership Application of Bob Kashani

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

As the former GARNOME maintainer, I can say that Bob was invaluable to
me as a sounding board, sanity break and anything else you'd care to
name -- he was involved in some way since jdub was maintainer (2003 is
the earliest recorded message I have for him), but really stepped up to
the plate when it was indicated that I was no longer able to continue as
maintainer.

He has spearheaded GARNOME's recent re-push into GNOME's CVS, and was
formally instrumental in producing patches that helped GARNOME's
cross-compatibility under Fedora/RHEL-esque distributions, in addition,
he is well-versed and very patient when dealing with users and is one
hell of a good documentation writer to boot.

I'm putting up as many fingers as I can lift for him (one) -- he's
exactly the kind of member the GNOME community needs now, and in the
future.

There should be no question regarding his membership, IMHO.

Paul

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 12:59 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Dear Paul, Elijah, Jeff, Murray
>
> The GNOME foundation membership committee needs more informations to
> process the application of Bob Kashani. Since you have been
> listed as the primary contacts, the committee would like you to list the
> contributions that Bob Kashani has made for the GNOME community
> in recent times.  Your input will be greatly appreciated to help us to
> make a fair and informed decision in the granting or denying the
> applicant as a foundation member.
>
> At your service,
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
>
>   Barış Çiçek <baris teamforce name tr>
>   Albert Mora <jarashi telefonica net>
>   Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan randomink org>
>   Eddy Mulyono <eddymulyono mail com>
>   Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>