Okay, this has had enough time to breathe. Thank you everyone who’s commented, and thank you @mark.johnson for starting the thread. It’s split off into a couple of other interesting discussions about IRC and communication channels in general too which is good to see.
@Wild_Man I’m assuming there has been enough time to raise this with all the board members? I asked the CC to chime in and read through, they don’t seem to have had any problems. Taking everything into account, we have landed on this process to apply for membership:
Document your contributions on Discourse and invite members of the community to give testimonials in a ‘membership applications’ category
- Needs doing:
- Creation of a ‘membership application’ category - (I, Rhys, can do this)
Agree to the code of conduct through Launchpad and check a box to agree.
- Needs doing:
- Ticketing Launchpad to make the change (@madhens and I can take care of this and report back)
Present your application to the membership board in a real-time interview with the board on IRC.
- Needs doing:
- Documenting the process of setting up and attending the meeting with an asynchronous contingency if quorum can’t be had in a given time frame.
- @mark.johnson made a great start on this that needs updating with Libera but I would also like to work with an elective from the membership board to do a larger update too @lucyllewy or @Wild_Man who might be the best person to talk through some ideas with?