From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [78.47.116.26] (helo=drlauer-research.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MENkK-0006S4-SY for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:21:41 +0200 Received: from andromeda.vanille.de (e180189180.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.189.180]) by drlauer-research.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46784584626 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:44:55 +0200 (CEST) From: "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" Organization: Vanille-Media To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:11:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906091121.59329.mickey@vanille-media.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200906101511.57613.mickey@vanille-media.de> Subject: Re: progress on OE organization issues X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:21:41 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > As for the last bullet point, what is the status of membership for > those of us without commit access? I seem to have seen mixed signals > wether we are invited to be member of the e.V. Some messages > indicates that only people with commit access are going to be > accepted, while others (like mickey) request all interested in OE to > join the e.V. One of the major purposes of the e.V. is being able to raise funds to give people a chance to improve the spots in OE where we are weak. The idea of a self-chosen membership fee was to invite companies who have a certain benefit from OE giving back in the form of tax-excemptible membership fees and donations. Most e.V. associations have the notion of 'active' and 'passive' members -- both which are equal stakeholders interested in supporting the association through their contributions. I consider active members being the committers contributing through code, docs, etc. and passive members being the ones who rather want to contribute in monetary form. By being a member, you have the rights to vote when it comes to decisions that influence the future of the OE. > Could someone put a small statement on Wiki on this? We should, if the board agrees with that. :M: