Membership & Elections Committee

Welcome to the Membership & Elections Committee of the GNOME Foundation.

The Membership & Elections Committee, as the name suggests, is tasked with processing applications for membership to the GNOME Foundation and based on a set of policies approve, reject or ask for more information on the applications. The Membership & Elections Committee are also responsible for conducting the Elections to the GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors.

Current members of the committee are:

• TobiasMueller

• AndreaVeri (chair)

• PascalTerjan

• KunalJain

• MarcinKolny

• Tong Hui

At a glance

Useful links for new comers

• Membership Committee's Home: http://www.gnome.org/foundation

• Application and renewal form: http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply

• Status of the Foundation Membership queue: https://rt.gnome.org/stats/membership.html

• Mailing list for discussion and an useful point of contact for people: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/membership-committee

• GNOME Foundation Elections and Referenda: http://vote.gnome.org

Relevant Information

• /ProcessingAnApplication: step by step on how to process a membership's application

• /MembershipBenefits: Foundation Membership Benefits

• /RT: documentation about the Request Tracker tracking system of the Membership Committee

• /FormLetters: some form letters we use when processing applications

• /EmeritusMembers: details about the Emeritus Membership

• /ElectionsHowTo: how to organize elections & referenda

• /Accesses: accesses that should be set up and available to all new Membership Committee members.

• /ApprovedMembers: list of approved but not yet announced (foundation-list) members.

• /QuarterlyReports: Quarterly Reports data for the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

• /RenewalsPolicy: The policy we should follow when renewing a Foundation Membership.

Additional Information

• /Roles: explanation of the various roles of the committee

• /HowWeWork: organization of the committee

• /MembershipGuidelines: guidelines explaining how we should decide on memberships

• /ToDo: our TODO list

• /Meetings: Membership Committee's meetings stuff.

• /Meetings/Agenda: Membership Committee's agenda items to discuss at meetings.