On Sunday 04 July 2010 10:43:25 jdd wrote:
Le 04/07/2010 10:33, Andreas Jaeger a écrit :
Somebody said in the discussion that he felt bad whenever we had to reject a person applying for membership. Why does it happen that people apply that are not active? What can be done here?
It's very dificult to know what one particular people do for openSUSE. We can do, if he work on mailing list/wiki/forums.
But there are many other places. Examples:
do members have to:
* speak english? how can we estimate non english activity?
No, they don't have to IMO - but how will they then apply?
* work on the net? How can we estimate the field (entreprises, install fests, demo dvd spreading, teaching relatives)?
with reports from them - they could blog about this.
* work specifically for openSUSE? Some very active people of upstream applications ask for membership. they work being GPL'd are used anuwhere. How can we know if they are openSUSE active fans? may be they coded this only for openSUSE on the beginning?
Adding the fact than presently only a handfull of members work on the registration process! not enough!
There should be at least one active registrator on any langage, known to be so, and the candidate instructed to send him they "registering evidences"
That sounds to me that our membership process (and note I'm one of those that is responsible for its launch) is too complicated, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126