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GNOME Foundation Membership Application

To apply for membership in the GNOME Foundation, please complete the following form as completely as possible. Your application will then be reviewed by the Foundation's Membership and Elections Committee, which will notify you when your application has been accepted or rejected; the committee may also ask you for additional information. For details on the standards used in evaluating applications, see the GNOME Foundation Membership Policy, adopted by the Board of Directors.

If you have any questions regarding the application process, please feel free to e-mail the committee at membership@gnome.org.

Contact Information

Full Name:
E-mail address:
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any):
cvs.gnome.org username (if any):

GNOME Contributions

Membership in the GNOME Foundation requires that the candidate has contributed to a non-trivial improvement in the GNOME Project. Please use the following sections to explain how you have contributed to the project, providing enough detail to allow the committee to verify your application.

Please provide a short list of areas of GNOME to which you have made a non-trivial contribution (for entry into the public membership list). For example, "Documentation, gnomecal, Debian packaging.":

Please provide a more detailed description of your contributions to help the membership committee determine your eligibility. In general, anything listed above should be explained here, and additional contributions can be included. For example: "Wrote a chapter "How to Use the GNOME Calendaring System" for the GNOME Users Guide. Several patches for gnomecal related to color support. Packaged the 1.4 release for Debian.":

Please list individuals (frequently, but not necessarily, project maintainers) who can help the membership committee determine your eligibility. You should provide their name, e-mail address, and a brief description of their role as a reference. If there is nobody you can think to list, feel free to suggest another way for the committee to verify your contributions, such as a pointer to a project ChangeLog, etc. To continue the earlier example: "Dan Mueth (d-mueth@uchicago.edu) (GDP coordinator); Russell Steinthal (rms39@columbia.edu) (gnome-pim maintainer); packaging logs at http://www.debian.org/packages/gnome/":

Other Comments

Please feel free to include any additional information which you believe the committee should consider while reviewing your application:
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