Recruiting new people into the committee

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Here's a quick draft of a mail I'd like to send to foundation-list and
gnome-love. This is based on what was sent in august 2002.
As membership-committee archives are publicly available, I don't know if
it's a good idea that candidates send their candidacy there...

What do you think of the draft? I'm sure it can deal with some love.

Vincent

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Hi,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is looking for new members. If
you think you may be interested in volunteering, read on...

What does the Membership Committee do?
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The main tasks are:
  * process membership applications
  * maintain the membership list
  * run the election for the Board of Directors each fall
  * maintain http://foundation.gnome.org/
There are some more current challenges too:
  * run the "anonymous voting" referendum
  * build a new infrastructure for handling memberships

What are the main tasks of the new members?
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The new members will help out with all of the tasks of the Committee.
The big job of the moment is running the referendum: it will take a good
amount of work as this is an important step for the Foundation. It will
also be a good formation to run the elections.
Now is also the good moment to help build the new infrastructure for
handling all the memberships: this new infrastructure will allow the
Committee to be more efficient for processing membership applications.

What are the attributes of a good candidate?
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These tasks are not technical and do not require a lot of familiarity
with GNOME or the GNOME community. The main qualities needed are: spare
time, attention to detail and motivation!

If you are interested in joining the committee, please send an email to
membership-committee gnome org with a few sentences about yourself which
may help us select the new members.

Thanks

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