Clean up of proposed Edubuntu Member applications

[uwe]

hello,

I once applied and it is so long ago that I don't really know how it
came to it. but for an outsider it is completely unclear.

at some point I decided I wanted to help. so I asked around and people
said to go and triage bugs or do translations or other things. but then
you need to be a member - at least that is what the websites say. and so
I applied.

so a little bit more information would be good. especially for
newcommers. I am happy that your moving forward because I have waited
several month for movement on this issue. I checked the website every
now and then but nothing happend. I even contacted mark shuttleworth
because I found is email somewhere and he responded which I found to be
impressive.

anyway, meanwhile I spend my energy in other areas. and hope to be able
to be somekind of help there.

rgds,

uwe geercken




Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 15:43 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Carter
(highvoltage):
> Hi Jordan
> 
> Jordan Mantha wrote:
> > During our last meeting we discussed the state of the Edubuntu Members
> > Launchpad team [0], particularly the fact that we have about three
> > times as many "proposed" members as current members. The vast majority
> > of the proposed members are completely unknown to the Edubuntu team.
> > People seem to hit the "join" button for many different reasons.
> > Some people like to join every team with "ubuntu" in the name. Some
> > people want to express their support for Edubuntu. Some people want to
> > become contributors to Edubuntu. In all those cases joining the
> > Edubuntu Members team is not the right path.
> > 
> > The Edubuntu Members team is a special team that recognizes
> > significant and sustained contribution to the Edubuntu project by
> > granting all the rights and privileges of an Ubuntu Member [1].
> > Indeed, the Edubuntu Council has been delegated the authority to
> > accept people into this team by the Ubuntu Community Council [2].
> > 
> > We decided in our last meeting to purge the current list of "proposed"
> > Edubuntu Members on Launchpad so that we have a better idea of who is
> > actually requesting membership review by the Edubuntu Council. This
> > cleaning of the slate will allow us to hopefully start processing more
> > applications and grow the Edubuntu Members team. This will especially
> > be important as we look to elect three new Edubuntu Council members in
> > the near future as nominees to the Council are approved by a vote of
> > the Edubuntu Members.
> > 
> > So, if you get a rejection email from Launchpad and you want to become
> > an Edubuntu Member, don't worry. We will be giving out better
> > instructions ([1] is a good place to look for Ubuntu's version) on how
> > to get your application reviewed. We will also be setting up hopefully
> > in the near future a Launchpad team for all you who want to show your
> > support by becoming a "fan" of Edubuntu. We'll let everybody know when
> > that's in place.
> > 
> > Thanks for making Edubuntu a great project to work in and have a nice day!
> > 
> > -Jordan
> 
> We haven't actually acted out on this yet, is there any objections in
> doing so? If there aren't we'll clean out the -proposed list on Friday
> sending a link to the proposed applicants on how to apply.
> 
> -Jonathan
>