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-----Original Message-----From: Joel Gordon
jdd - 9:57 29.05.15 wrote:
Hello,
I do not have at hand the letter that is received by people asking to be a member but with no or nearly no contribution, and so refused.
I think this letter is much too rude, and that it's a waste of good will not to make some sort of follow up. There are not so many :-)
I would prefer/suggest to start with pointing out what is wrong/rude in current letter.
So I dug up the letter, we can discuss it and see where are places for improvements: Hi <username>, everybody is welcome to participate and get involved in the openSUSE project and we grant membership for those that have shown a continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project. Membership officials have rejected your application since that does not apply to you. We just found too little contribution and encourage you to get more involved with openSUSE and then apply again for membership. As a person new to openSUSE you might check the "How to Participate" which gives a variety of possibilities, http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate to start contributing. Or you join our bi-weekly project meeting to see what' going on, http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Meetings If you disagree with the decision, please send an email to membership-officials@opensuse.org You can start contributing to openSUSE right away, you do not need to become a recognized openSUSE member, Best Regards, Membership officials
I can try to do so.
I propose to have a letter of this sort (very incomplete, please read and comment)
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Jdd/letter_to_people_asking_to_be_a_member_2015
do we have a forum/mailing list that we could ask such people to subscribe? "opensuse@" seems to me much to intimidating :-)
I would advice against pointing to one particular person as this person would become single critical point in the whole process. I think opensuse or opensuse-project seems like a good place to start.