GNOME Foundation membership

July 28, 2006 4:46 pm Dave Neary gnome

At the foundation general meeting during GUADEC, a person who shall remain anonymous asked the question “why should I get foundation membership? What does it enable me to do that I can’t do already?”

Membership of the foundation is an odd thing. It doesn’t really give you the right to do anything new except participate in foundation-list and vote in foundation elections. Since foundation-list is a list to talk about stuff related to the foundation, if you’re not a member you’re probably not interested anyway.

But foundation membership means something more than that to some people. I happened on this blog entry today, and I was moved. Honestly, tears welling up moved.

The one of the most awaited things in my life.. Its a really dream come true.. On the may 3rd morning, i got a confirmation mail from gnome.org that i have been added to members list. I just pinched myself to check whether it was real. It was.. I was overflowing with happiness.

Being a GNOME Foundation member for someone outside of the community is another way of saying “Come in! Make yourself at home.” For lots of people in this community, they don’t know how much other people appreciate their work.

The first time you feel appreciated is a special moment. It might be when you get a mail saying “I’m spending too much time checking in your great patches, it’s time we got you CVS access”, or it might be having someone you admire in the community saying “Wow! You’re the guy doing jhautobuild! You rock!”.

Or it might be “We are pleased to inform you that you are now part of the GNOME Foundation Membership”.

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