Re: Non foundation member contacts

["Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay" <sankarshan randomink org>]

On 3/20/07, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:

> Question: should we accept non foundation members as contacts on
> membership applications?
>
> IMHO, it doesn't make sense to get feedback from someone who is not
> part of the foundation as our acceptance process is based on
> peer-recognition.

Normally we ask for a GTP contact if it relates to GTP projects (all
failing one sometimes bugs Christian Rose) else for a project that is
related to GNOME one tends to assess the quantum of contributions.
There has been exactly two instances when I had to process tickets
with the same issue but an iteration over mail figuring out a GNOME
Foundation member did help. For example, right now I guess xiph.org
does not have too many Foundation members yet there has been
substantial contributions from that project - one has to keep digging
away a bit. Troublesome no doubt but sometimes it pays off.

In recent times there has been an increasing number of Foundation
member contacts not responding :(

:Sankarshan

ps: By the way, I updated the FormLetters page to include Requesting
Information from Applicant


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