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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.

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.

Membership applications are overseen by the [[Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees#Membership_and_Elections_Committee|Membership and Elections Committee]].

Membership applications are overseen by the [[Oversight Board]].

== 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 the 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.

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 the year's election. Someone on the Oversight Board 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. However it was non binding so this list has not been ever pruned of inactive members.

The most recent currency review was in June 2017.

== Members List ==

== Members List ==