Re: [gnome-women] Membership committee has new members

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Thanks, Sankarshan, for your reply. :)

On 11/10/2006, at 9:26 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Dave Neary wrote:
> > Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > > What do you need us to do?
>
> *the* question :)
>
> > I'll let Baris and Sankharshan go into the details, but the short
> > version is that the membership committee evaluates whether someone  
> > who
> > applies for GNOME Foundation membership gets it. They also handle
> > membership renewal, and keep a list of eligible foundation voters for
> > elections.
>
> All the stuff that keeps the kitchen clean and the house tidy.

House-cleaning images aren't the most encouraging ones to use with  
women. ;)

> It is a
> fun job and we really look forward to getting more and more members  
> and
> at the same time push the turnaround time down as much as we can.

Sounds good.
> > In the past, we've had trouble handling local user group requests and
> > some non-technical contributions. The tone of the membership  
> > committee
> > has on occasion also suffered from being a little terse/prosaic/blunt
> > (pick your favourite) - hopefully, bring in new members will speed up
> > the approval/rejection of membership requests, and give the  
> > process the
> > human touch it needs. There's a fine line to walk between being
> > all-embracing (at the risk of making GNOME foundation membership
> > meaningless) and pushing away potentially great members.
>
> Hmm...Dave's being polite really ;) The usual issues we have range  
> from
> we are being too harsh to we are taking far too long to fulfill a
> membership request.

It's impossible to please everyone, but we can do our best with the  
resources we have.
> However, fear not. We have taken the sword of efficient functioning to
> our way of doing things and right now we have a spiffy system (and
> toolset) that's just what the doctor ordered.

Cool. Where can we play with, um, assess these tools? ... [reading  
wiki docs] https://mango.gnome.org/

Will any of our existing logins work for this? And do our existing  
CVS accounts work for the gnome-foundation module? I just tried  
checking it out, but I can't find it. Its not at root level. Which  
module is concealing it sneakily from my cvs client?

> These allow you to provide
> love where it is most required and make the membership a good thing  
> for
> a lot of folks (if you don't believe that just check p.g.o for some  
> nice
> blog entries from deserving and great new members). All in all, a good
> day's work just makes your heart fly.

I know what you mean. :)  Encouraging people has its own rewards.
> In the end, I would like to tell you that no contribution to GNOME is
> too small and would request that if you feel that you can  
> contribute to
> GNOME through becoming a member for your efforts - please join in.

That's a good message for us to propagate. :)

Should we take more detailed questions (access, actions) onto the  
membership-committee list?

I tend to ask a lot of questions until I can get things worked out  
satisfactorily in what's left of my brain, so I hope that's OK. In  
any case, the female thinking model (cluster-burst thinking) is to  
examine a situation from every aspect, and to trial those aspects, so  
there will be questions. Your documentation, though, is very  
informative. It answered most of mine first up. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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