GNOME Foundation Membership
This is a place to think of ideas of how to make GNOME Foundation Membership more meaningful and attractive.
Goals
- Use foundation membership to make people feel like they belong as members of the GNOME project
- Ensure that people want to become Foundation members
Ideas
Feel free to add ideas here!
- Tie some infrastructure services directly to Foundation membership.
- Automatically give members @gnome.org email addresses rather than requiring them to apply for them
- Ability to have a blog on blogs.gnome.org
- This would mean that using these services would effectively become a membership badge - it would advertise that person's Foundation membership to others.
- Enhance the members page to include more information, possibly including bios, personal information, photos, etc.
- Members could potentially be given individual profile pages. Their live.gnome.org home pages could redirect to these.
- Blog about new members on the Foundation blog to give them more exposure. Announcements of new members could also give details about new members and their contributions.
- Blog about current and long standing members
- (Potentially controversial!) Restrict access to #foundation to members only - so you have to be a member to attend meetings
- Create 'GNOME Foundation Member' badges that people can put on their websites and blogs (ideally, these would link to a person's membership page...)
- Provide unique membership numbers.
- Membership numbers would make Foundation membership more definite.
- Members could put their membership numbers in their email signatures and on their websites or blogs. They could be incorporated into membership 'badges'.
- These could be retroactively awarded to previous members so that the numbers serve as a running total of how many people have belonged to the Foundation.
- Low numbers would be a sign of having been around for a while.
- Encourage people to publicise their membership using badges, email signatures, blogging, microblogging and other social media.
- Allow people to know when their membership is about to expire and that they have to renew it (so they can vote)
