Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread David Farning
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 01:33 +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:06:12PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > > > > What's the Individual Contributor Agreement, and why would we want one > > > > of those? Communities should wait until they get large before they > > > > start ins

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread Walter Bender
> I'm struck by the disconnect between Greg's advice of "let anyone who > says they want to be a member be a member" and this new "let anyone who > enters into a legal agreement with us be a member"; my intuition sides > on the relaxed side of the continuum. On the other hand, isn't this exactly w

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:06:12PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > > > What's the Individual Contributor Agreement, and why would we want one > > > of those? Communities should wait until they get large before they > > > start instituting bureaucracy that turns their potential new members > > >

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread David Farning
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 01:10 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:38:45PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > >> An Individual member is someone who has made a significant and sustained > >> c

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:38:45PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> An Individual member is someone who has made a significant and sustained >> contribution to the Sugar Labs ecosystem -- of any type -- and who has >> ex

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:38:45PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > An Individual member is someone who has made a significant and sustained > contribution to the Sugar Labs ecosystem -- of any type -- and who has > explicitly agreed to the Individual Contributor Agreement. What's the Individual

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread Sameer Verma
> Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition [snipped] This creates ambiguity. If it doesn't add to the process, I suggest we remove it altogether. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 US

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Individual Membership

2008-09-11 Thread David Farning
Here is a draft of the Individual Membership Guideline base on the feedback received over the last few days. Dfarning --- An Individual member is someone who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the Sugar Labs e

[IAEP] Notes from FUDCon Brno 2008

2008-09-11 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hey all, as promised in Walter's Sugar digest here come the notes from the various discussions that took place at FUDCon Brno 2008 last weekend (also available at http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Events/FUDCon_Brno_2008/Notes): ===Telling stories=== =>telling awesome stories to demonstrate the poss