Core dev requirement for developer membership board seats?

[Robie Basak]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:40:10PM -0300, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> Quick orthogonal question: What if... joining CoreDev obligates one to
> be a DMB member (or, at least, applicant) in that same year ? Or 1 year
> later, after one is a bit more experienced ?

I appreciate you thinking outside the box on this.

I'm not sure about such a mandatory requirement on volunteers though. It
might put off core dev applications, or lead to more DMB members simply
being absent at meetings, which is already a problem.

Community Free Software projects have traditionally always held a
"volunteer what you can" philosophy with no forcing of any volunteer to
do any additional work. I think that's a great and appropriate way to
treat all volunteers, and this would go against that.

However, there's nothing to stop an interested employer mandating that
any of its employees who get core dev must then stand for the the DMB
for one term or something like that. Since the employees get paid and
therefore the employer would be in a position to tell them what to do as
part of that job. That might help :)

Robie
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