Re: [gnome.org #11830] GNOME Membership Application of Dr.Saikat Gochhait (sgochhait AT yahoo.co.in)

["Jay Lee via RT" <membership-applications gnome org>]

Hi GNOME community,

I second Fred's comment and inform you that I am NOT recommending Saikat to
become a member of your Foundation.

Saikat wanted to deploy OLPC's XO laptop in India, but I have no ideas about
his background and he is not officially affiliated with OLPC. More about I
can not find his contribution to either OLPC and GNOME.

Sometime people just mention OLPC for their personal reference, though OLPC
is deeply engaged in GNOME development and deployment through over 2.1
Million XO laptops in 40 developing or least developed countries up to date.

As the Executive Director of Asia at OLPC, I am interested in supporting
GNOME and Open Source activities in Asia, if any had any related event and
activities, Especially in East Asia, S.Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan.

Jay Lee
Executive Director of Asia
One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org)
Foundation and Association



On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I had never heard of Saikat Gochhait before GNOME.Asia Summit and my
> experience has been less than positive: while Saikat registered for a talk
> (about OLPC, not GNOME) which we approved he only let us know he wouldn't
> attend the evening before his talk was scheduled (at 10:22pm - mail
> available if needed).
>
> I would be curious to know what other 'contributions' Saikat has done for
> GNOME?
>
> So to make it clear in the current circumstances I would be rather opposed
> to Saikat membership approval.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Fred
>
>
> On 04/06/2011 05:55 PM, Bruno Boaventura via RT wrote:
>
> > Dear Jay and Frederic,
> >
> > The GNOME Membership Committee is about to process Dr.Saikat Gochhait's
> > application to become a GNOME Foundation Member and therefore we would
> > like to receive some feedback about the applicant and the GNOME-related
> > work.
> > (past and present contributions are usually fine)
> >
> > Please remember that vouching for a contributor means you really think
> > he/she deserves to be a Foundation Member and that you trust the
> > applicant and their
> > work for the global GNOME community. If unsure about vouching or not,
> > please let us know why you don't feel enough comfortable in advocating
> > this applicant.
> >
> > For further details about the applicant, feel free to have a look at the
> > applicant's
> > application at the following link:
> >
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2011-March/msg00035.html
> >
> > At your service,
> >
> > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
> >
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