On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 13:34 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 13:31 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 13:24 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:45 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:31 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: > > > > > > > Dear membership committee, > > > > > > > > Could you at least include a small description of these people when > > > > sending out these announcements (it's part of the application, > > > > copy-paste!)? I'd love to welcome them and collaborate with those that > > > > work in related areas, but unfortunately I don't know all of them. > > > > > > > > I've been bringing this point up since GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul and I > > > > still haven't seen any response to it. It's a two minute effort, but it > > > > would make the integration of new members so much nicer. > > > > > > > > Is this possible please, or will I have to complain about this again in > > > > six months? > > > > > > Why don't we ask the new members to give a short introduction > > > themselves? > > > > That has been suggested before and it never happens. Only rarely does a > > new member introduce himself/herself (kudos to them). > > Okay, that's easy to solve. > > We just make it a requirement for becoming a foundation member. And we > document this requirement on the live pages and in a welcome mail. > > If they don't introduce themselves, we just unmember them a few days > later.
Why go through all the hassle if we can just copy/paste the description they already wrote :-) (also, the membership process can take some time, does it mean we should stay home and monitor our mailboxes to watch out for the 7-days introduction warning?) > I'm guessing the foundation board can make a decision about this? It > doesn't sound to me like something we need to do a vote on ;) Yeah, I just want some statement. A no is fine as well, as long as it has a good reason. I've mentioned this quite a few times already now but I never got a decent reply. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list