Re: Recruiting new people into the committee

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Le jeudi 05 février 2004, a 13:41, Eric Baudais a ecrit :
> Vincent-
>
> I think we should make this point more general.  Right now we're
> needing a new infrastructure to handle memberships.  However in the
> future we might need other infrastructure updates, similar to the hack
> you had to do for the md5 sums for the election.  Maybe we should have
> the point be:
>
> * upgrade and maintain the infrastructure for tracking memberships and
>   running elections.

Thanks Eric, it looks better with this. (Btw, I forgot to thank Ghee in
the previous mail, so thanks !)

Ok, now, we have this (I'll send it to foundation-list and gnome-love if
it looks ok):

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
  * upgrade and maintain the infrastructure for tracking memberships and
    running elections.
Coordination with the board is an essential part of those tasks,
particularly for the referendum and the election.

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?
--------------------------------------------
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[1] with a few sentences about yourself
which may help us select the new members.

Thanks

[1] Note that archives for the membership-committee mailing list are
publicly available.

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