Re: Forming GNOME-UK

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:20 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > Magnus Therning wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 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).
> > I think GNOME-UK should be open to all people who use GNOME and live (or 
> > have lived) in the UK. That is, we should be a user group type of 
> > organisation. It could provide an ideal forum for helping people get 
> > involved further in the GNOME community.
>
> I hope not. GNOME-UK, the mailing-list, website, etc. should obviously
> remain open to everyone. Membership to the association (we're not
> talking about a small football club) includes privileges. I don't think
> those privileges should be available to people who haven't helped GNOME.

OK. We're obviously talking cross purposes here. Do you perceive the 
official organisation as a small subset of the GNOME-UK group?

-Thomas