Re: Future plans

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Le jeudi 05 février 2004, a 13:51, Eric Baudais a ecrit :
> > 2 is definitely a top priority. But we need to work on it. I won't be
> > able to do anything about that in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Any volunteer?
>
> We need to collaborate with the hackers who expressed interest in the
> thread on the foundation-list to devise a good policy and
> implmentation for anonymous voting.  This is the first step.  Then we
> can submit the proposal to the foundation-list and alter it according
> to the comments.  Afterwards we will have the referendum.

Good idea. Any volunteer? Or should we wait for the new members of the
committee?

> > I'm working on 3 right now. See next mail.
> >
> > AFAIK, Eric is working on 4. He may need some help. What's the status
> > here?
> > I remember seeing a french project that does more or less what we want:
> > http://www.zopeuse.org/projets/galette/Wiki_galette/FrontPage
> > A demo is available here:
> > http://www.logeek.com/galette-demo/
>
> I'll look into this hopefully during the weekend.  I hope the entire
> site isn't in French because I cannot read very much French at all.

IIRC it's mostly in French. But the demo is understandable by everyone,
I suppose (ok, I understand because I'm French, but...)
I did not look at the project that much. It looks like it might be
useful, though.

> > As for 5, we definitely need to discuss with the board. Glynn is
> > listening here and I'm sure he's eager to help us. Right now, here's
> > what I'd like to discuss:
> >   * one-year membership
>
> Excellent idea.  This 2 year membership renewal confuses a lot of the
> membership.
>
> >   * all renewals on the same date (=> it will ease our work because we
> >     won't need to track every renewal)
>
> Another good idea to help people get into a habit of sending in their
> renewal around the same time every year.
>
> >   * what is the exact status of the committee? This is not clear for me:
> >     we have an official role, but how are the members of the committee
> >     chosen? How does it work? I don't want to add bureaucracy, but we
> >     need some clear rules.
>
> I would like to see some guidelines from the board about the role of
> the membership committee.  Maybe adding terms 

Totally agree for the terms.
What about this: people are in the committee for two years, and every
year half the committee is renewed to ensure there's a continuation.

> >   * recently, I've seen people asking for membership because they want a
> >     gnome.org e-mail address. This is not good.
>
> I think we need to better define what the role of the foundation is
> and how to be a good member.
>
> >   * how can we make more people vote?
>
> More people have to understand the role of the foundation and care
> about the direction it is taking.  I think we need more communication
> from the board on their projects and Tim and Leslie on how the
> foundation is spreading the GNOME love across the world.  Tim's year
> end summary was great and I would like to see monthly reports sent the
> foundation list on the work they are doing.
>
> I need to elaborate on some more of the above points.  I'm hurrying
> because I need to get back to work and want you European folks to see
> this today.

Thanks for your feedback on those points. I hope you'll have time to
elaborate a bit on this :-)

Vincent

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