On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:47:12 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: >On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:51 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Looking only to include major contributors might suggest that GNOME >> is an elitist organisation and that you have to either give up your >> day job or be lucky enough to work for a company that pays you to >> develop on GNOME. Besides "beginners" I suspect it would also lock >> out translators and artists. >> >> I'm not saying there shouldn't be criteria for entering, just that >> they shouldn't require radical changes to my life. > >Translators, artists, and documentors are all welcome to join the >foundation. There are many members in the foundation who haven't >written a line of code in many years (say, Jeff Waugh) but they have >contributed, so are members. > >Drawing icons, translating, writing a small program, or writing >documentation is all it takes to be a member of the foundation, you >don't need to work on GNOME full-time. Ah, then I drew the wrong conclusion from an earlier post, it made me believe only major contributors qualified for the GNOME foundation. So, should the question at hand be changed to: Should GNOME-UK be open to users? The GNOME Foundation is not open for pure users (if I understand the text on http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/ correctly). /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org Jabber: magnus therning gmail com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin
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