On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Alexandre Franke < alexandre.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Luciana Fujii <luci...@fujii.eti.br> > wrote: > > - What is the impact of having people joining the Foundation and > > vanishing later? > > They gain voting ability when they shouldn't. The board should be > elected by people who are involved with the community. Members of the > foundation should be members of the community. > > > - Do people that don't intend to continue contributing to GNOME actually > > apply to GNOME Foundation? If yes, why would they do that? > > Interns are told at the end of the internship that becoming a member > should be their aim. It should indeed be their aim, but this implies > that they should do what's necessary to deserve this, i.e. becoming > and staying involved. > > > why bother with special ruling this and risking potential problems? > > The membership can correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing that's not > been said so far is that the "N months before accepting a member" is > not really special to interns. Sure it seems it's only written for > them, but if someone were to apply after one month of involvement > (with or without paid incentive) I'm pretty sure the membership > committee (MC) would think it's too soon too. Who said anything about one month? An internship takes 3 months. An internship plus this waiting period is 5 months.
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