Summary of board- and voting-related discussions, and what comes next

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

> I think the calendar year requirement is very important. Partly just
> for the look of things: if we have people less then a year become
> members based on their great involvement, then it does start to be
> more of a thing for cool kids. It implicitily implies that if you're
> not member you don't have great involvement.
>
> So before anyone applies and it becomes awkward, I'll just declare
> that I likely won't be voting for any new voting members (unless
> someone slipped through the cracks in the initial member list).

I disagree. I think (as you sort of say yourself) that a year is
purely cosmetic. Any project that does not wish to stagnate needs
fresh inputs every once in a while. So I likely _will_ be voting for
many of the GSoC'ers should they choose to apply.


- Nikolaj