Re: [gnome.org #2917] GNOME Membership Application of Og Maciel

["Leonardo Fontenelle via RT" <membership-applications gnome org>]

Probably I'm the only "primary contact" who's not a Foundation member
yet. Does my opinion still count?

Og Maciel has been a very active member of the community for the last
months, specially on the Brazilian translation, and as far as I know
was the most important person in making a bridge with the Brazilian
Ubuntu translation team, which meant more manpower for us, pt_BR
translators. He also is going to speak on GUADEC
(http://guadec.org/node/601); probably that's not a criteria, but it
certainly doesn't count against him.

I believe the Membership Application team should also listen to John
Wendell (jwendell gnome org) before accepting Og Maciel's application.
Jonh Wendell is a Foundation member and a Brazilian FOSS translator.
He was kicked from the Ubuntu pt_BR l10n team, IIRC "automatically"
for not translating for a long time, but I'm part of this team too (as
a bridge with the GNOME pt_BR l10n team) and never translated anything
for Ubuntu. Besides this incident, it also comes to my mind that Og
Maciel didn't receive a SVN account yet, which _IMHO_ would be a
natural step before joining the Foundation.

Overall, I believe Og Maciel deserves the application: he actively
promotes GNOME, both working and in publicity. I just want the two
issues to be clarified before he can really speak officially for
GNOME.

Leonardo Fontenelle
http://leonardof.org

2007/7/1, Lucas Rocha via RT <membership-applications gnome org>:
> Dear Lucas, Guilherme, Leonardo, Danilo, and Ken,
>
> The GNOME foundation membership committee needs more information to
> process the application of Og Maciel. Since he has listed
> you as the primary contact, the committee would like you to list the
> contributions that Og Maciel has made for the GNOME community in
> recent times. Your input will be greatly appreciated to help us to make
> a fair and informed decision in the granting or denying the applicant as
> a foundation member.
>
> At your service,
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
>
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