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Guy Fontaine wrote: |
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> The message is clear enough. You ought to be a member of the Gentoo |
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> Community if you attempt to submit your registration as a member of the |
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> Gentoo Foundation. What is a member of the Gentoo Community ? Is that |
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> someone registered to the official Gentoo Forum ? |
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I don't officially speak for the Foundation, but the intent is that |
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Foundation membership is open to most developers, and to members of the |
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community who have generally made some kind of strong and consistent |
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contribution (without necessarily being an actual developer). That |
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doesn't necessarily require a forum account, but if you plan on applying |
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as a general member of the community you should probably be able to |
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explain to a trustee what you have done to contribute to Gentoo. |
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Foundation members who are not developers are completely new this year, |
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so there isn't a lot of precedent. However, if you're the sort of |
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person who has maybe contributed to some kind of gentoo-related project, |
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or helped out infrastructure by hosting mirrors, or have done a lot of |
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work over the years helping out people on mailing lists, or whatever I |
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imagine this is the sort of thing the trustees would be looking for. |
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Merely running gentoo probably wouldn't qualify. However, I don't want |
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to discourage anybody from applying if they feel they have something to |
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contribute. |