Re: Where GNOME Developers live

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

[Sorry for the repeat, board folks... forgot to include the
membership-committee the first time.]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:57, Tim Ney wrote:
> Hello Vincent,
>
> I often am asked about the geography and regional concentrations of
> GNOME developers. Making a determination by e-mail domains wouldn't
> be fruitful and assessing geography for people who commit to CVS
> wouldn't be non-trivial or a complete representation.
>
> Do you have any ideas?  Might it make sense to ask for a physical
> address as part of the foundation membership application/renewal
> process?

Debian is one large project that has collected similar information. They
do it on a strictly volunteer basis: developers (or maybe just
maintainers -- not sure) can supply latitude and longitude or something
similar and then they can make cool pictures, etc.

So having a place that people can send their details if they wish would
be reasonable.

I would be very much against requiring physical addresses on membership
applications. Requiring it purely for demographic reasons seems somewhat
frivolous and I cannot think of any other reason we would need it (I am
probably slightly biased on this, since I already think we are already
far too careless with what is essentially personal data in the
membership applications).

Malcolm