Fwd: [gnome.org #11851] Application received from Marcus Moeller (marcus.moeller AT gmx.ch)

[membership-applications gnome org]

This is forward of transaction #157690 of a ticket #11851
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> On Tue May 10 19:41:30 2011, marcus moeller gmx ch wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Well, the policy actually takes care of two points:
>
> 1. applicant's activities
> 2. two sponsors (this is mandatory at the moment and the whole committee
> voted unanimously in favour about this point)
>
> Why do we require two sponsors? 
>
> since verifying applicant's contributions to the GNOME Foundation is not
> a really easy duty (we would need several links and references over the
> years/months of contributions and then we would have to verify the
> effective truthfulness of those contributions; we then prefer to have
> someone trusted into the Foundation to vouch/sponsor for the applicant.
> (and two sponsors looks to us the best compromise solution to this problem)
>
> > 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.
>
> sure, but please take with you two or more people that can vouch for you
> and your contributions and we will more than happy to welcome you into
> the Foundation.
>
> Thanks for your patience and have a great day,
>
> Andrea,
> GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
>
>
>
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