One thing I thought of would be to change the direction of the process to be an invitation rather than an application. If you see someone helping, instead of pushing him to apply you could fill in the form describing his contributions (and possibly the name of someone else who can support it) and if accepted he would get an invitation to join the foundation.
On 12 February 2015 at 10:11, Daniel Mustieles García <daniel.mustie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sriram, > > Maybe I could help you with this. How do you think we could do it? > > 2015-02-11 23:09 GMT+01:00 Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>: >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Alexandre Franke >> > <alexandre.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Luis Menina <liberfo...@freeside.fr> >> >> wrote: >> >>> So yes, I still find it intimidating because it's hard to feel >> >>> legitimate when you're a small contibutor. >> >> >> >> And that's part of the problem. This guy calls himself a "small >> >> contributer", which he is not. Sure he's not a maintainer of one of >> >> our core libraries, or even the leader of one of our teams, but he's >> >> been sustainably active for quite a long time now. >> > >> > Yes, I've had other anecdotes where people relate the same thing. As >> > I said, I'm intimidated too when go through it. Maybe if there are >> > interested people we could work on it together? >> > >> >> Who would be interested in working with me on this? This would be a >> nice easy task. Perhaps I will ask the Internet as well. >> >> sri >> >> > sri >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Alexandre Franke >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> foundation-list mailing list >> >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-list mailing list >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
