Re: Forming GNOME-UK

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:28 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> 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?

Exactly. The primary reason we are setting up a GNOME-UK is to help with
organising GUADEC. I don't think that we should make it into a
all-inclusive organisation from the get-go.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>