Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

[Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof gnome org>]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 13:31 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 13:24 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:45 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:31 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear membership committee,
> > > 
> > > Could you at least include a small description of these people when
> > > sending out these announcements (it's part of the application,
> > > copy-paste!)? I'd love to welcome them and collaborate with those that
> > > work in related areas, but unfortunately I don't know all of them.
> > > 
> > > I've been bringing this point up since GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul and I
> > > still haven't seen any response to it. It's a two minute effort, but it
> > > would make the integration of new members so much nicer.
> > > 
> > > Is this possible please, or will I have to complain about this again in
> > > six months?
> > 
> > Why don't we ask the new members to give a short introduction
> > themselves?
> 
> That has been suggested before and it never happens. Only rarely does a
> new member introduce himself/herself (kudos to them).

Okay, that's easy to solve.

We just make it a requirement for becoming a foundation member. And we
document this requirement on the live pages and in a welcome mail.

If they don't introduce themselves, we just unmember them a few days
later.

I'm guessing the foundation board can make a decision about this?  It
doesn't sound to me like something we need to do a vote on ;)


Cheers,


Philip

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