Re: Privacy campaign funds

2015-02-17 Thread Magdalen Berns
> > > > A while back we ran a $20K privacy campaign. A while later there was a > > discussion about what to do with the funds. Did we ever decide what to > > do with these? > Nope. > I proposed to fund interns to work on security and privacy related projects > but the idea was rejected. > This see

Re: Privacy campaign funds

2015-02-17 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:40:45PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > A while back we ran a $20K privacy campaign. A while later there was a > discussion about what to do with the funds. Did we ever decide what to > do with these? Nope. I proposed to fund interns to work on security and priva

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 06:30:51PM +, Magdalen Berns wrote: > > > If you have a concrete reason why it does help to continue to ignore > > bylaws > > > that are inconvenient for whatever is more convenient, then you are free > > to > > > make a case for that. California law probably would proba

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-17 Thread Magdalen Berns
> > >> What you are suggesting would be accepting every single intern > >> regardless of this person being really interested and passionate about > >> joining the Foundation. That will probably lead to a wider membership > >> base for sure but how long these people are going to really stay > >> aro

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-17 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-02-15 16:17 GMT+01:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya : > This policy came about after I encouraged interns who were 2/3rd of the way > through their internship in 2012 to apply for the Foundation membership. The > membership > committee preferred that interns have a chance to figure out their level

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-17 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-02-13 2:45 GMT+01:00 meg ford : > Hi Andrea, > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: >> >> What you are suggesting would be accepting every single intern >> regardless of this person being really interested and passionate about >> joining the Foundation. That will probably lead

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-17 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-02-12 21:34 GMT+01:00 Magdalen Berns : >> One of the main requirements of gaining >> Foundation Membership is being active within the community for a >> little while *after* the internship has ended to demonstrate the fact >> there's a real interest staying around and contributing to the >> P