All, Taking into consideration that nominate and propose - in general and in this context - mean the same and that any contributor can propose potentials for ASF Membership, shouldn't the by-laws of the Foundation reflect this?
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
