Re: Caroline Henrikson's foundation membership

[Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzi gnome org>]

I'd definitely be willing to vouch for Caroline! She has been doing really great work with the Engagement team since before GUADEC and is starting to work on some really important projects that will help us scale our marketing design support for the community. She was a core contributor to LAS GNOME this year, designing all of our materials for the conference and volunteering on the ground during the whole conference. Really, she has been instrumental to the Engagement team this year!

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help make the case for her reconsidered membership.

Best, 

Nuritzi

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Nuritzi Sanchez 

GNOME Foundation 

President, Board of Directors

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:27 PM Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

Hi Membership Committee,

I understand that Caroline's application for GNOME Foundation
membership was rejected?  Could we revisit this decision?

I think everyone on this list can vouch for Caroline's application.
She has produced all the illustrations and graphics for GUADEC 2018
and Libre Application Summit and has spent long hours working on the
designs for both these conferences.  She also designed stickers as
well.

I'm quite puzzled as to why her application was rejected considering
the all the work she has produced.  I'd love to understand why this
happened and what the membership committee's concerns were for her
application that lead to her rejection.  In general, the membership
team has been quite generous in accepting memberships in the past and
arguably Caroline's candidacy is very strong in our estimation.

The engagement and conference teams has a very very strong desire to
have a designer.  It's very rare to attract the interest of one.
Caroline has capabilities that are highly desirable and we will be
relying on her skills for a number of things that engagement and
conference teams will be needing.  Some of the tasks will rely on the
benefits of GNOME foundation membership (eg access to Nextcloud, going
to conferences etc)

Please let me know what happened here so that we can address the
concerns.  Thanks.

Best,
sri