GNOME Foundation Membership

This is a place to think of ideas of how to make GNOME Foundation Membership more meaningful and attractive.

Goals

• Use foundation membership to make people feel like they belong as members of the GNOME project
• Ensure that people want to become Foundation members

Ideas

Feel free to add ideas here!

• Tie some infrastructure services directly to Foundation membership.
  • Automatically give members @gnome.org email addresses rather than requiring them to apply for them
  • Ability to have a blog on blogs.gnome.org
  • This would mean that using these services would effectively become a membership badge - it would advertise that person's Foundation membership to others.
• Enhance the members page to include more information, possibly including bios, personal information, photos, etc.

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  • Members could potentially be given individual profile pages. Their live.gnome.org home pages could redirect to these.

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• Blog about new members on the Foundation blog to give them more exposure. Announcements of new members could also give details about new members and their contributions.
• Blog about current and long standing members
• (Potentially controversial!) Restrict access to #foundation to members only - so you have to be a member to attend meetings
• Create 'GNOME Foundation Member' badges that people can put on their websites and blogs (ideally, these would link to a person's membership page...)
• Provide unique membership numbers.
  • Membership numbers would make Foundation membership more definite.
  • Members could put their membership numbers in their email signatures and on their websites or blogs. They could be incorporated into membership 'badges'.
  • These could be retroactively awarded to previous members so that the numbers serve as a running total of how many people have belonged to the Foundation.
  • Low numbers would be a sign of having been around for a while.
• Encourage people to publicise their membership using badges, email signatures, blogging, microblogging and other social media.
• Allow people to know when their membership is about to expire and that they have to renew it (so they can vote)