Re: What is GNOME?

[Chema Celorio <chema celorio com>]

I still think that we should require a small enrollment
fee. Even if it is just 5/10 bucks. If you contribute to
gnome you should not care donating five bucks to the
Foundation, and if you don't really care about gnome
you will not waste your money. 

I would do it like this :
- If you have a cvs account, you can become a member by
paying your enrolment fee in http://whatever.com/path/file.html
- CVS accounts follow the current procedure.

Is there any scenario in which somebody should be
a member and not have a cvs account ? For some
reason I like the cvs accounts better than the 
gnome-hackers mailing list, dunno exactly why.

This sounds simple enough to me and requires no
intervation, everything can be done automatically
once we set it up.

Chema

Bart Decrem wrote:
> 
> I agree.  I would do it like this:
> 
> 1.  Everybody who's on Gnome-Hackers is automatically a member
> 2.  If you're not on Gnome-Hackers and want to be a member, send email to a
> nominating committee and they'll decide if you have made 'significant
> contributions to Gnome'
> 3.  New people get added to Gnome-Hackers using the same 'significant
> contributions' criteria.
> 
> Fast and simple and I'm sure it's over-inclusive, but that's probably how
> it ought to be.
> 
> Bart
> 
> Chema Celorio wrote:
> 
> > Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyway, even this list looks pretty controversial. :-( I think we need
> > > to actually answer the hard questions about what GNOME contains. If we
> > > can't do that, then we need to answer it by saying that GNOME contains
> > > everything imaginable. Then of course the worry is that the foundation
> > > will be run by kids that write gfloppy and gless and stuff like that,
> > > instead of by the larger contributors with lots of experience.
> > >
> > > What lines can we draw?
> > >
> > > Havoc
> >
> > This process seems very complicated and time consuming. If we
> > do it like this we are going to spend most of the time,
> > deciding who is and who isn't a member. We need a very
> > simple and clear way of deciding. There will be thousands
> > of special cases
> > "I wrote gnome-foo 0.0.1 a month ago and I did a couple
> > of tranlations for GdiskFree, and fixed a bug in gfloppy."
> > Is he a member or not ?
> >
> > Do a tranlator deservers to be a member and not a
> > dr-genius hacker ? (since we consider dr-g not part
> > of the core gnome).
> >
> > Maybe the solution is to allow anybody who wants to be a member,
> > to become one. And filter all the kids by requiring the
> > payment of an enrollment fee. I don't think somebody is going
> > to pay 15/20 bucks just to vote on something that does not
> > maters to him. This also opens a can of worms, since a
> > company will be able to enroll a lot of their programers
> > and pay for their fees, which will give this company a certain
> > power over the voting process.
> >
> > I keep thinking of :
> > How many members of the IEEE do not deserver to be a members ?
> > How many members of the United State Parachute Asociaton
> > are not Skydivers ?
> >
> > My point is that we need a very simple way to decide who's a
> > member. Most of the hackers don't have time to answer a 3 line
> > email, and we are going to spend time deciding who's a member ?
> >
> > Chema
> >
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