Re: Future plans

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Quick answer (sorry, I'm running out of time)

Le jeudi 12 février 2004, a 08:54, Eric Baudais a ecrit :
> Some of the membership have stated on foundation-list they wanted to
> see a one year membership term.  I think this will make our job easier
> and harder at the same time.  It is easier because everyone is
> renewing at the same time and we can make more internal guidelines on
> how to start the membership renewal process.  It is harder because we
> will be swamped with renewal applications as well as a lot of new
> membership applications too.  Hopefully increasing the committee's
> size will help in going through the membership applications.  The task

And I hope the new membership management stuff will help for this too:
no more files to edit, mails automatically sent, etc.

> > 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.
>
> That sounds like a good idea.  I like it because we aren't forcing the
> entire committee to resign.  People who want to continue to work on
> the committee can do so.  However we are allowing a place for new
> members.  I also think an upper limit should be placed on the
> membership committee.  I think this upper limit should be around 10
> people.  We should also try to have at least 4 people on the committee
> at the same time.

10 sounds too much for me, I would have said 6 people. But I'm ready to
be convinced :-)

> Another guideline should be concerning internal decisions we make,
> such as proprosals to the board and applications committee members
> bring to the committee as a whole.  I think there should be a 75%
> agreement before a decision will be published.  This allows for
> discussion before we make decisions and it will require everyone
> participate, if only to give their agreement.

Agree here (but I was more thinking of 66% than 75%).

[...]

> > > >   * 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.
>
> I think the next two tie together well.  I think there is a need for
> some sort of education program for the foundation membership on being
> a good member.  This might have something to do with my fraternal
> associations, but I don't think a lot of people actually know what the
> foundation does and what we expect from the membership.  I think we
> should present a paper at GUADEC to start this off.  I would be
> willing to write a document outlining my ideas and do some more
> research into this.

Great!
Note that the call for papers end on Monday.

[...]

> > Thanks for your feedback on those points. I hope you'll have time to
> > elaborate a bit on this :-)
>
> I ran out of time again on the education part.  Oh well, life can be
> full of disappointments.  I would like to hear from the other members,
> mainly Andy and Ghee about what they think.

Andy, Ghee?

Oh, I totally forgot: we have to look at the candidacies to join the
committee. IIRC, there are four volunteers. I was thinking of accepting
2 or 3 now and telling the others that I'll leave next summer (two years
term :-)) so they may join later.

Vincent

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