Yes, of course a community member can propose a member. As Rob says, the nomination and election has to be done by the Members, but not all projects have existing members acting as the eyes and ears.
Of course, not having members in a project community shouldn't impact the project since it is self-managing and membership is only a foundational level thing. Nevertheless, the membership needs to be a good cross-section of our project communities. If a community member feels someone is being overlooked a mail to priv...@community.apache.org will reach people who can add notes to the member watch list. This is the right list for discussing what we look for in members. Sent from my phone - please forgive brevity and typos -----Original Message----- From: "Rob Vesse" <rve...@dotnetrdf.org> Sent: 7/8/2014 10:42 To: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Subject: Re: Proposing for Apache Member? Pierre Not unless one/more of those contributors is themselves a Member/Officer of the ASF - see Sectopn 4.1 of the Bylaws (http://apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html#4.1) which states the following: To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a current member of the corporation and must complete a written membership application in such form as shall be adopted by the Board of Directors from time to time Therefore contributors of a project can't directly, I guess they could talk to ASF members they know and suggest that person with the aim of getting a nomination but not being a member myself I'm not sure if that would be acceptable behaviour. Ultimately ASF is a meritocracy and my personal impression based on people who I know of who've become members in the past couple of years is that to become a member you need to be active across the foundation (not just within a small part of it) for a prolonged period. One thing worth asking is why the community you are involved in feels the need to have someone be elected as a Member? Rob On 08/07/2014 09:43, "Pierre Smits" <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi All, > >Is it possible that contributors of a project can propose a community >member to be elected as an Apache Member? > >Regards, > >Pierre Smits > >*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* >Services & Solutions for Cloud- >Based Manufacturing, Professional >Services and Retail & Trade >http://www.orrtiz.com
