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Any "significant and sustained" contributor to Sugar Labs is eligible for membership. Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition, a [[Sugar_Labs/Sugar_contributors|contributor]] generally must have contributed to a non-trivial improvement of the Sugar project or Sugar Labs activity. Contributions may be code, documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, ''running a Sugar deployment'', or other non-trivial activities which benefit Sugar Labs. Membership eligibility is an individual determination: while contributions made in the course of employment will be considered, they will generally be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather than accruing to all employees of a "contributing" corporation. The Membership and Elections Committee will oversee membership applications (Please apply by sending email to ''members at sugarlabs.org'').

Any "significant and sustained" contributor to Sugar Labs is eligible for membership. Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition, a [[Sugar_Labs/Sugar_contributors|contributor]] generally must have contributed to a non-trivial improvement of the Sugar project or Sugar Labs activity. Contributions may be code, documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, ''running a Sugar deployment'', or other non-trivial activities which benefit Sugar Labs. Membership eligibility is an individual determination: while contributions made in the course of employment will be considered, they will generally be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather than accruing to all employees of a "contributing" corporation. The Membership and Elections Committee will oversee membership applications (Please apply by sending email to ''members at sugarlabs.org'').

The Membership and Elections Committee will review the membership list for currency once per year. Any member may join this committee, which is currently staffed by [[User:Sebastian/FuenteLibre|Sebastian Silva]], [[Samson Goddy]], and [mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com Caryl Bigenho].

The Membership and Elections Committee will review the membership list for currency once per year. Any member may join this committee, which is currently staffed by [[Samson Goddy]], [[User:Laura Vargas|Laura Vargas]] and [[User:Ignacio|Ignacio Rodríguez]]

== Applying for membership ==

== Applying for membership ==

All submissions MUST be sent via email to '''members''' at '''sugarlabs.org'''. Submissions sent to other email addresses or sent after the deadline will not be processed for this year's election. Someone on the '''MEC''' will reply to your query within 2 business days. If you don't get a reply after a week, please contact [[Samson Goddy]]  or [mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com Caryl Bigenho].

All submissions MUST be sent via email to '''members''' at '''sugarlabs.org'''. Submissions sent to other email addresses or sent after the deadline will not be processed for this year's election. Someone on the '''MEC''' will reply to your query within 2 business days. If you don't get a reply after a week, please contact committee members individually.

In your email, please include:

In your email, please include:

In order to ensure that the Sugar Labs Membership list is reflective of the current status of the project and its participants, once a year members will be asked to confirm that they still wish to be a Sugar Labs Member. If this request bounces, or if a request has not been replied to after it has been a) resent, b) checked for a more current email address, and c) six months have passed, the member will be sent a removal notice with an invitation to reapply.

In order to ensure that the Sugar Labs Membership list is reflective of the current status of the project and its participants, once a year members will be asked to confirm that they still wish to be a Sugar Labs Member. If this request bounces, or if a request has not been replied to after it has been a) resent, b) checked for a more current email address, and c) six months have passed, the member will be sent a removal notice with an invitation to reapply.

The most recent currency review was in January 2016.

The most recent currency review was in January 2016. However it was non binding so this list has not been ever pruned of inactive members.

== Members List ==

== Members List ==

== Membership Committee ==

== Membership Committee ==

For 2015 to 2016-08-01 the Membership and Election Committee was Caryl Bigenho, Samson Goddy, and Sebastian Silva.

Until 2013 the Committee was staffed by Luke Faraone.  

The [[Oversight Board]] appoints members to the committee though a normal motion procedure.

In 2014 and 2015 we missed having elections. The 2016 Committee was staffed by [[User:Sebastian/FuenteLibre|Sebastian Silva]], [[Samson Goddy]], and [mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com Caryl Bigenho].

 

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