2015-02-15 16:17 GMT+01:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya <mari...@redhat.com>:
> This policy came about after I encouraged interns who were 2/3rd of the way > through their internship in 2012 to apply for the Foundation membership. The > membership > committee preferred that interns have a chance to figure out their level of > participation in GNOME after the internship before applying and, as a rule, > wanted to see non-trivial > contributions for a period longer than 6 months. The intention of having this > statement in the internship wrap-up e-mail is to tell interns about the > foundation membership and > encourage them to apply at an appropriate point. I think some guidelines > there are preferable to not mentioning the foundation membership to interns > at all. I believe most > interns make non-trivial contributions during their internship, but because > the membership committee has further discretion about the expectations for > the membership > applications, we need to figure out how to communicate these in future > e-mails in a way that is encouraging and relates the case-by-case provision > of the bylaws. Interns do indeed make a non-trivial contribution to the project. What we expect is waiting *two* more months [1] after the internship ended for them to apply for the Membership Committee to make sure the individual has a true and real interest in being part of the GNOME community. We encourage interns to apply and we would love more of them to do so if they feel their contributions have been non-trivial enough and they would be willing to participate to Foundation's debates. Being a Foundation member grants many benefits [2] but also invites the member to actively participate to discussions made on foundation-list and voting on the yearly Board elections. Discussing important topics on foundation-list and voting who will be in charge of managing the GNOME Foundation requires a certain knowledge of how the organization and the community works behind the scenes, thus the need for the contributions to be non-trivial, durable and coming from an individual who strongly believes in the values and the mission we daily pursue as a project and community. [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/ProcessingAnApplication [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/MembershipBenefits -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
