HI Rob, Thank you for your prompt reply.
How would a ASF member become aware of potentials, if it weren't brought to their attention by others? Should they read-up on every mailing list available to establish such awareness for themselves? I don't regard such as feasible. I would say that bringing potentials to the awareness of ASF Members is acceptable behaviour for anyone who has the Apache Way in his/her heart. Like you could have guessed, I am not a member. Therefore, I don't have a say in what the by-laws of the ASF must be. But, in the spirit of community development - and the ASF is a community) we could set up a discussion whether or not article 4.1 should be extended in such a way that nominations by others (than members) can be submitted, and whether or not such nominations should be accompanied by a notice of sponsorship by an existing ASF Member. Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Rob Vesse <rve...@dotnetrdf.org> wrote: > Pierre > > Not unless one/more of those contributors is themselves a Member/Officer > of the ASF - see Sectopn 4.1 of the Bylaws > (http://apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html#4.1) which states the following: > > To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a > current member of the corporation and must complete a written membership > application in such form as shall be adopted by the Board of Directors > from time to time > > > Therefore contributors of a project can't directly, I guess they could > talk to ASF members they know and suggest that person with the aim of > getting a nomination but not being a member myself I'm not sure if that > would be acceptable behaviour. Ultimately ASF is a meritocracy and my > personal impression based on people who I know of who've become members in > the past couple of years is that to become a member you need to be active > across the foundation (not just within a small part of it) for a prolonged > period. > > One thing worth asking is why the community you are involved in feels the > need to have someone be elected as a Member? > > Rob > > On 08/07/2014 09:43, "Pierre Smits" <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >Is it possible that contributors of a project can propose a community > >member to be elected as an Apache Member? > > > >Regards, > > > >Pierre Smits > > > >*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* > >Services & Solutions for Cloud- > >Based Manufacturing, Professional > >Services and Retail & Trade > >http://www.orrtiz.com > > > > >
