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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
