Re: Membership Applications from Raimo and Stephan

[David Nielsen <gnomeuser gmail com>]

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Den 24/06/2013 kl. 13.47 skrev Fabiana Simões <fabianapsimoes gmail com>:

Hi David (cc: Membership Committee),

I'm reviewing Raimo's and Stephan's membership application to the GNOME Foundation. They mentioned that you recommended them to apply in order to attend this year's .NET + GNOME Hackfest in Vienna.

I was asked by Karen to encourage attendees to apply for membership and explained to them that being granted memberships would ease the process if so granted. I hoped that asking people who wanted to apply to label the application so they might provide some additional context for the committee on future intent to contribute. 

Regardless of this, I think we should look at the two applicants separately for fairness and context. 

I will personally vouch for Stephan, he is a boon to GNOME and his contributions in the past and the future, have been and continue to be, crucial to the .NET development and GNOME application experience. It is a hard problem and after many attempts at harnessing GIR we finally have a solution that will work. Stephan understands the bindinator second only to its creator and has shown as much.

Stephan has invested a lot of time to the Bindinator project prior to being awarded a GSoC student scholarship. The project would not be where it is without him and his understanding and documentation of the deficiencies in the Bindinator. The project itself, creating bindings for the GNOME platform is a big boon for developers and will go towards validating GNOMEs decisions on the developer platform with regards to GIR. Hopefully also bringing about some fixes to the GIR metadata in the progress for the common improvement (I believe Stephan already has identified some such places in GSTreamer already). 

Stephan has shown a remarkable dedication to improve the GNOME developer platform and I think that his contributions as well as commitment warrants membership.

I understand the memberships committees stance on Raimo's application and will support it fully. 

However I will however speak about and for him, for a moment.

Raimo is excited about GNOME again. He is raring to go and he think is past contributions show that he has the skill required to contribute. What he needs is encouragement. Going to the hackfest is something he is excited about and has even offered to cover his own transport if that helps my budget. I believe there is merit to accepting him, he has done some good work in the past and he works well with the existing Banshee team. He knows the process of how we work which is a huge help in reintegrating in our community. He is excited and I believe he will be sticking around from talking with him.

Kind regards,

David Nielsen

Unfortunately, I can't approve their membership applications as of now. Raimo's contributions to Banshee were very few and date from 2010, and Stephan's contributions consist mainly of his recently-accepted GSoC project. As explained at https://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers/: "Members of the Foundation are required to have made a valuable, recent and non-trivial contribution to the project, and should be planning to actively contribute in the future".

In order for them to still attend the .NET + GNOME Hackfest 2013, I recommend you to reach to the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors through board-list gnome org. They, together with the Travel Committee, might be able to arrange travel assistance for Raimo and Stephan.

If you have any other questions, please, feel free to reach me (fabiana) or any other Membership Committee members at #membership on IRC.

Best wishes,
Fabiana Simões