Re: [gnome.org #11851] GNOME Foundation Membership - Denied

["Marcus Moeller via RT" <membership-applications gnome org>]

Dear Andrea.

> We regret to inform you that your application to the GNOME Foundation
> Membership has been denied.
>
> We encourage you to continue your efforts as a GNOME ambassador and
> GNOME promoter, so you can reapply for membership and hopefully join the
> Foundation in a few months.
>
> We actually tried to ping your sponsor for around one month now but we
> never received any answer from them. Since contacting vouchers/sponsors
> before sending an application to the committee is usually one of the
> applicant's duties to take care of before applying, we are sorry to deny

Sorry, that was not known to me. Besides that I am personally not such a 
big fan of 'you have to be recommended by two project members' 
application process. I would rather like to let my activities speak

> your membership at this time. (we weren't able to check any other
> contribution made to the project since no links or other references were
> added to your application)

Recently I have done the GNOME 3 Release Party in Zurich, e.g.:

http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Switzerland/Zurich

> The Membership Committee uses the Membership Policy at
> http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/ to determine eligibility.
> Please review this policy if you believe this determination was
> made in error. You can send questions to this committee by emailing
> membership-committee gnome org
>
> You are free to re-apply at any time if you have additional information
> which you feel will help illustrate your eligibility to us.

My future plan is to set up a Swiss GNOME User Group in the next few 
month. After this has been set up (and hopefully a success), I would 
like to re-apply.

Greets
Marcus

Kind Regards
Marcus


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