hi,
the GNOME Membership Committee had its first meeting exactly two days
ago (on 11/03/2010) and here they come all the meeting's details:
Attending:
* Andrea Veri
* Bruno Boaventura
* Pedro Villavicencio
* Susana Pereira
Regrets:
* Tobias Mueller
Agenda for the meeting and items discussed:
* checking up membership guidelines
* preparing elections
* discuss any improvement to the foundation.g.o website
* check for active / inactive members and find one more new member
(if needed)
* elect a new chairman
* discuss new members self-introduction to foundation-list
Decisions:
* check and modify form letters (they look too old and often we
don't get from vouchers what we need to judge an application) (form
letters are stored in our wiki page available at FormLetters [1])
* modify the applicant.php [2] page to make it more readable and
friendly (we should remove some useless fields making the page more
clear. Also we should ask the applicants to write a good resume of
their past and present contributions together with at least two
vouchers emails)
* contact the Board of Directors and see if MC have autonomy to
change the number of vouchers required for an application. (and also
if we have the possibility to modify the foundation.gnome.org
website)
* update the foundation.gnome.org website to make it more close to
how gnome.org looks like. (we will need the Website / Art team to
help us out a bit with this task) --> this needs to be forwarded to
the Board to check if their fine with this. (Bruno prepared a mail
already)
* AndreaVeri to send a patch for the Mango git branch asking for
new members to send out a small introduction about themselves on the
foundation-list mailing list as per link posted above [3])
* new members will be posted on the foundation-list every one
month or when we gonna reach 10 approved members as per
MembershipCommittee/ApprovedMembers [4]
* check with Tobias about elections scripts et all, this will be
discussed separately on our mailing list in the near future. (the
elections need to end before GUADEC in June / July)
* AndreaVeri got appointed as the new chairman of the
MembershipCommittee. (the quorum voted unanimously in favour)
(Thanks Bruno for all your work in the past two years)
* we checked for active and inactive members on the Membership
Committee and we updated our page accordingly. (The MC official
members allowed to process new Foundation Members and prepare
elections are listed at the bottom of the MembershipCommittee wiki
page [5])
[1] http://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/FormLetters
[2] http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/application.php
[3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-February/msg00027.html
[4] http://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/ApprovedMembers
[5] http://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee
At your service,
The GNOME Membership Committee
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: :' : Andrea Veri <and debian org>,
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