On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:40:11 +0100 > From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: Membership drive > > On Iau, 2005-07-21 at 21:32 +0200, David Neary wrote: > > That's definitely a goal, and getting a wider foundation membership > > could be part of that goal (albeit an incidental part). > > > for i in `CVS | grep contributors | sort | uniq | comm - > membership.list` > do > mail "$i" << EOM > Thank you for your contributions to GNOME. You can contribute further > to the GNOME project and help us set the goals for GNOME by joining the > GNOME foundation. See $URL for more information. > EOM > done > > Or is there a reason this couldn't be done automatically monthly ?
The effort required to join needs reduced. If we invite people to join there should be some way to fast track their membership. We already know they have contributed and want to reward their continued involvement not hassle them about prove their credentails which we should already know. There needs to more rewards for joining. I always exercise the right to vote (decisions are made by those who show up, and I bought into a lot of the nationalist propoganda we were taught in History class) but I can understand how other are not interested in voting and may not see it as worth the hassle of registering. Ideally membership of the Gnome Foundation should provide something more for those who are not interested in exercising their vote, it may already even exist but I do not know what it might be or what needs to be done to improve the perception that joining the Gnome Foundation is primarily about getting a vote. Sincerely Alan Horkan _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
