On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote: > >>I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are consciously > >>not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and > >>there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for > >>membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and large, > >>defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as "people involved in the > >>GNOME project" is fine. > > > >I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be > >Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if > >there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a > >Foundation member. > > So would I! But I know that in the past when we've talked about the > value of foundation membership, there have been one or two people > who said "I don't want to be a foundation member". Things are changing on that side, we (Membership Committee) had several discussions and meetings with a few members of the Board about the guidelines and policies to adopt when renewing or accepting new Foundation members. If there is a problem, people should take it to foundation-list and discuss a possible solution, saying "I don't want to be a Foundation member" without a rationale or a motivation will definitely take us no where. During past elections (June 2011) we had some issues with the renewals notifications, someone mailed me saying there was a problem, the Committee had a meeting and everything is going great now or should I start talking about the criticisms we received about our application's form? The Foundation website is under a complete facelift and it'll go live really soon with a brand new application's page, more user-friendly with less fields and without the so-bad checkbox people out there hate so much. This is the way to solve problems and I will never stop saying that every GNOME hacker is *welcome* to join the Foundation, the way I see the GNOME Foundation is it being a big family, we should help each other and we should collaborate to make GNOME a better place for everyone. Fighting each other is *not* the way to go, please think about that. cheers, Andrea
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