Ubuntu Membership EMEA Regional Board meeting

November 3, 2009 in *buntu | 3 comments

A friend of mine, Heikki applied for Ubuntu Membership today an the EMEA membership regional board meeting. When the meeting started, I felt a little that the board is just a rubber stamp that accepts everyone applying for Ubuntu membership.

Heikki did a great job  – 2 minutes and he got all 5 votes it’s possible to get (see the log).

I must say I was happy to see the board didn’t accept everyone. There were people who just were not able to show what they’d done for the community. A plain list on the site is not enough, you need to prove it: number of forum messages, Launchpad karma, wiki edits, cheers from other community members. You – need – to – be -prepared!

And that’s the way I think it should be: Ubuntu membership is a status, a reward for the work you have made for the community. Along with the membership you get the benefits: @ubuntu.com e-mail address, IRC cloack, free LWN.net subscription, Ubuntu CD’s from Shipit etc.

So thank you EMEA board, you once again convinced me that Ubuntu community is well governed.

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  1. Andrey Mavlyanov’s avatar

    Andrey Mavlyanov on November 4, 2009 at 1:52 am

    number of forum message, karma on launchpad, wiki edits is nothing when you’re going to discuss non-english speacker. More over – most of the loco activity lay on the “real world” pole – how do you count them?

    The only thing is a real proof – the cheers from the community. But what to do if you’re a leader of such community? Who do ask those cheers? Can board trust the cheers from people who is under someone who want to be counted as ubuntu member?

  2. Risto H. Kurppa’s avatar

    Risto H. Kurppa on November 4, 2009 at 8:33 am

    You’re right, not all activities are easily convertable into numbers in the internet.

    As they said, if you organize events off-line, having a list of those is good but having photos from the events is better. And if one is a community leader, I’d hope he’d be in touch with other community leaders (on-line :( and this way gain trust so that they can cheer him. Or people working for him – I would trust if someone gets cheers from say 5 people, and if 1-3 join the meeting to make sure his work is appreciated. There is always the option of joining the meeting and saying ‘this guy didn’t do what he claims he’s doing’.

    And well, then there’s again Code of Conduct and leadership CoC that should make you play fair.

    I’m sure there are members who have not done much to become members, maybe even some who’ve cheated in the application process. It’s sad, but no system is perfect so some procentage of ‘wrong members’ must be accepted.

    To cut it short, if one does a good job, documents it on the wiki and gets cheers from other people, the membership shouldn’t be a problem.

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