Re: foundation application..

[Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Luciana Fujii <luciana fujii eti br> wrote:
> - What is the impact of having people joining the Foundation and
> vanishing later?

They gain voting ability when they shouldn't. The board should be
elected by people who are involved with the community. Members of the
foundation should be members of the community.

> - Do people that don't intend to continue contributing to GNOME actually
> apply to GNOME Foundation? If yes, why would they do that?

Interns are told at the end of the internship that becoming a member
should be their aim. It should indeed be their aim, but this implies
that they should do what's necessary to deserve this, i.e. becoming
and staying involved.

> why bother with special ruling this and risking potential problems?

The membership can correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing that's not
been said so far is that the "N months before accepting a member" is
not really special to interns. Sure it seems it's only written for
them, but if someone were to apply after one month of involvement
(with or without paid incentive) I'm pretty sure the membership
committee (MC) would think it's too soon too. So I don't think is
actually that we want to wait for interns, but rather that we clearly
state a period for which we wait. It should be at the MC's discretion
in all cases.

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Alexandre Franke