On 24.08.2022 17:40, Andreas Mantke wrote:
Hello MC Candidates,
Hello Andreas, hi all,
thanks for sending those questions.
Here my first questions to all candidates:
- What are the criteria to measure the value of a contribution?
- Which are the criteria for a non trivial or obviously insignificant
contribution?
- Would your rating differ from areas of contribution?
Let me try to share my view on this topic.
First of all, there are several ways to contribute to our projects and,
as a common ground, our statutes provides also some guidance on the
areas and on the ways to evaluate if a contribution is meaningful.
I think that the Board of Trustees is the heart of TDF, it's the body
that will empower the governance (both Membership Committee and Board of
Directors) and, at the same time, it's also the body that will have the
right to vote and elect the members of TDF's governance.
It's not a secret that I consider really important to have a Board of
Trustees that can represent all the different voices we have at TDF. For
this reason I believe that it's crucial to keep a good balance in it
while working at the evaluation of new applications or renewals.
With this I don't mean that in some cases the Membership Committee
should be stricter or more flexible just for a "quota" reason.
In the past term, my first in the Membership Committee, we had cases
where it was really trivial to take a decision, in others the evaluation
took quite some time, required extra investigations and even extra
inquiries, reaching out to the people mentioned as contacts for
verification for understanding the kind of contributions.
What I also noticed is that in some local communities there's a lot of
activity and commitment and that unfortunately there's no visibility at
"international level". This is also what I described in my candidacy as
the problem to "bridge the gap between the local and international
communities".
Last year with the community survey and this year with some sessions
with the local communities I think that as MC we made good steps in this
direction, but the path to walk through is still a long one from my
point of view.
One of the questions we are asking to every member that asks to renew
the membership or to every new applicant is their commitment to
contribute to our projects. Commitment and engagement are good metrics
to be considered in the evaluations, together with the quality of the
contributions.
I also think that as Membership Committee we should improve and
proactively look at our local communities, searching for new
ideas/needs/feedback and new potential contributors that are eligible to
became members.
Our foundation stands on the idea that contributors are entitled to take
decisions. I would like to go a step further trying also to ensure that
all the contributors will be aware of how our foundation works and that
if they are interested they can also actively join the governance of our
project. This is something that needs to be done in parallel with the
constant improvements for lowering the entry contributing barrier for
empowering all the users that are still not actively contributing but
that could be interested in doing so.
I also strongly believe that "contributors are not falling from the
sky". I think that the direction to look into is to increase and
strengthen the cooperation between the existing members of the Board of
Trustees, the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, the TDF
team, the Engineering Steering Committee, the Advisory Board and the
Certification Committee.
This group of people is extremely small if compared with the number of
users consuming what is available thanks to LibreOffice or the Document
Liberation Project. For this reason we should take care of all the
resources we have available, share the workload and maximise the
outcome.
We are plenty of users out there, now it's time to let them evolve to
the "contributor phase" and to listen to and engage with all the local
communities that are already doing an amazing work.
I hope that this clarifies even more what I would like to focus on in
this term if the Board of Trustees will decide to re-elect me.
Thanks a lot and happy hacking,
Marina
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