Today we are announcing the new Linaro Community Contributor process[0] and team[1].
Linaro itself is now an organisation of around 120 engineers, but as we continue to grow the community around us is also growing fast. We're grateful to the many people who are participating in our success, and so we're introducing the Community Contributor process to recognise those community members who have sustained contributions over a significant period of time. Our Technical Leads now have the opportunity to nominate an individual as a Community Contributor of Linaro. The benefits of becoming a Community Contributor will include:
* a Linaro e-mail address * the right to carry Linaro business cards (we supply the artwork, you print your own cards) * a Linaro IRC cloak * listing in the relevant Working Group on our Linaro organisation structure * listing in the Launchpad Community Contributors Team
Applying to be a Linaro Community Contributor is an easy process.
Community members can apply by requesting a nomination from a Linaro Technical Lead (alternately, the Technical Lead may approach them about the application).
After that they will need to complete and sign our Community Contributor Agreement[2].
The main points are that the community contributor agrees to are:
* to our e-mail terms of use, including use of your Linaro e-mail for upstream contributions * a copyright and patent licence to Linaro for any code you contribute with that e-mail address
Once that's done, the Technical Lead submits the nomination and completed Agreement to our Community Board [3]. The nomination will normally describe how the community member has worked with Linaro, any Blueprints they may have been involved with and Linaro Connect events they may have attended.
The Community Board will then evaluate all nominations within 2 weeks of submission and all being well the community member will be welcomed as a Community Contributor. We currently have nominations and signed agreements filtering in so this is an exciting time for all of us.
We place a lot of value on having a vibrant network of Community Contributors, so this does mean we reserve the right to cancel an appointment at any time if we feel the Contributor is not active in using the above benefits.
To find out more about the Linaro community and how to participate please see our community section [4] of linaro.org [5]
Please feel free to email the Community Board [6] if you have questions or wish to submit a community member for consideration.
[0] - https://wiki.linaro.org/CommunityContributor [1] - https://launchpad.net/~linaro-community-contributors [2] - https://wiki.linaro.org/CommunityContributor?action=AttachFile&do=view&a... [3] - https://wiki.linaro.org/CommunityContributor/CommunityBoard [4] - http://www.linaro.org/community/ [5] - http://www.linaro.org/ [6] - community-board [AT] linaro [DOT]org