Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-07 Thread Florian Snow
Hi everyone, Daniel Pocock writes: > As I am not an ordinary member of the GA, rather, I am a fellowship > representative, I try to consider the views of all fellows, supporters > and volunteers and not just my own views when communicating with the > GA. Just to clarify this

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-07 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Dienstag 06 Februar 2018 23:19:38 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > This is why it is so important for us to determine if anybody else may > either have achieved the status of being a member by completing the > "Join the FSFE" form Which is quite clear form the constitution of the legal association: no

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-06 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Mat, Thank you for your feedback! Information like that is helpful in making the FSFE a better organization for everyone. Of course, your feedback will not be the only thing to consider, but I find it especially important to hear feedback from someone like you who stopped contributing

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-05 Thread Mat Witts
> I am sorry. This is one sentence? Yes. Well observed. If you also notice it was a response to Florian's invitation to 'elaborat[e] a little bit about your experience?'. The request was a bit vague but I wrote in good faith about my experience as requested. This included some irritation which

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-05 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Je 2018-02-05 14:59:23, Mat Witts skribis: > There are > many ways to do that from elections, polls, forums, working groups and > all the rest of it but if either one is missing - 1) clear policy and > 2) evidence of freely conferred deference to them from members (and it > seems

[GA] who is a member?

2018-02-05 Thread Mat Witts
Hi Florian, >> I have left the FSFE because (among other things) there appears to be >> multiple levels of practical engagement with policy (which is fine) but it >> is based on a rather obscure set of policies concerning what membership >> means (which is not fine). > I am trying to

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-05 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Mat, Mat Witts writes: > I have left the FSFE because (among other things) there appears to be > multiple levels of practical engagement with policy (which is fine) > but it is based on a rather obscure set of policies concerning what > membership means (which is not fine).

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-05 Thread Mat Witts
> Today we had a poster near our FOSDEM booth saying "Join us at the Funky > Monkey", and indeed a nice bunch of people met in that pub. I didn't have the > impression that any of them felt having become a formal member of the legal > association by following the invitation to join. Small

Re: [GA] who is a member?

2018-02-03 Thread Reinhard Müller
Am 02. Februar 2018 17:12:10 MEZ schrieb Daniel Pocock : > - after clicking the "Join" buttons on the FSFE web site and filling > out > a form with the heading "Join the FSFE" and making a payment to the > association, people felt they had become a "member" of FSFE e.V. Today