 Good morning everybody, I'm Emily Hall from the Membership Committee. This is the first time I'm going to present this kind of presentation, meaning that usually I will evaluate later and I invite you to join later. It should be the very first after the lunch break. Usually I do, I would say, a presentation about how to become a member of the community first and then about the foundation. While this time I wanted to introduce the role of the Membership Committee, which I'm part of, and the coolies to have new candidates for the MC, for example, for the next year's elections, and for transparency to show the members, to show people how do we work and what do we do. This is the agenda, but I'll skip it. This is a warning, but we've got a little boring part. It was really long, but it's shrinked into two slides, so you're safe. By the way, prepare yourself, because two slides are really boring. As I said, what follows is a personal extract of TDF statute key points. Personal, because in the long version, I exactly cited the statute, but it was too long, so I had to really synthesize. So this is a personal synthesization. Well, this is what our statute says. MC is one of the bodies of TDF. I think that's clear, but to be more clear, the bodies are three. The bodies are three, which are a board of trustees, who is all the members, the board of directors, and the membership committee. This is our three-body of foundation. Then we have to say that it is volunteer work, so it is not paid, because expenses are repeated, just like now I'm here, and the bill for the room, obviously, and the plane, whatever, is paid by the foundation. To be elected in the membership committee, you must be already a member of TDF. Standing in one of the bodies was just one. This means that you either have to be a member of the board of trustees, a member, or in the board, or already in the membership committee, because re-election is not forbidden. But just one, only one is to say that, obviously, you can't stand both in the board and in the membership committee, obviously. Affiliationally, this is something interesting, is one third of a body. This means that, for example, at last election we had this case, because they were candidates, two or three people from Collabra, and at the end, the election, the members voted for two of them, and they were elected, officially, let's say, but the state did say that they couldn't join the both. So one of them, who was Miklos, decided to opt out, to resign, let's say, to renounce to his role in the membership committee in February of Europe, just because they went off working at that time, but they were working for our club. This is really important. This kind of rule is, obviously, it is valid also from the board of directors, and it is to prevent some kind of hijacking of the foundation. The means of the board have to be available for our team. This is to say that the foundation was meant to have those two bodies of governance, which is the board of directors, but also the membership committee. This means that if something arises, something wrong, something that will decide, for example, which is against the state, or is infringing some kind of law or whatever, the membership committee should stop that. It has never happened before, but formally I have to say and advise that this is possible, and there is something that you could maybe afford if you are part of the membership committee, in this moment of being, as a chairman. And first, the means of the board's meeting has to be provided to us so we can control what they are discussing and deciding and whatever. And also the other thing, meaning that it's a kind of balance, so that we would say control, we check their operations and they can shoot to the same with us. So this is a kind of balance to keep the foundation all safe. But again, we never stop them and they never stop us. It's just provided, it's just foreseen by the state. Anyone who might be a member of a free, this means that to be a member, being a member of the foundation is free. This is about the membership itself. It files an indicated time, not trivially, for at least three months. This means that, but we will see later in the afternoon talk, if you want to be a member of the foundation, you may apply, you may ask to be a member, but we have to check if you have already done something, not a trivially based. Meaning that I'm not saying daily, but nor once in a time, once upon a time. So trivially means that whenever you want, but most may be regulated. Membership lasts one year and less exclusion, death or resignation. This means that every year we have to renew members and this means that we have to ask them if they want, if they are willing to stay and be still a member. Which is not automatic at the moment, but we are working on this process. And finally, this has to, something to share with the Father Michael V, is if the 30% of the board of trustees, the O2 is my opponent is just to be short, board of trustees. So if 30% of the members of the document foundation and not less than 10, they can sign election request, or whatever reason, or complains about the board. And this has to must handle its kind of request and or complaint. This is from the statute. Finally, again, I'm serious as to the against board handles its election and impeachment process minutes have to be available for one. This is the only thing that's before. So we have also to send our minutes to the board if you request it. And finally, we can see last two years, just like the board, but the smart thing is that the elections are automated. So these two years means that we have elections every year. Let's say on one year you have the board elections, the next year, and see elections, and so on and so forth. And the board, the election committee has to be at least three persons, and maximum 10% of the board board of trustees, so 10% of the whole members. And the numbers, the number has to be odd publicly. Reaction is limited as I told you before. This is the end of the boring part. Is that some sleeping? Wake up. You have a question? A boring question. You mentioned this controlling part from each body. Are there additional statutes which instruments each body have to stop something? Because only the sentence will have the protocol available. It's nice. And you are informed but where is the opportunity to stop something? To be honest, this is something I've been asking myself as well. Our lawyer has been we've been chatting a lot about that and he told me this. We have not yet the opportunity to see exactly how this part works. Again, it has never happened before. But yes, this is something really... And it should not, but... Yes, but it could. And as a chairman, this is something that now worries me a little bit. Just because if it would never happen, I would like to be informed in advance how to proceed, how to do that. That's why I asked you. This is a question, again, I was asking myself and I planned to find an answer as soon as possible. Also because the statute states that we have to handle this, but not now. And it also... This was recovered. It also mentions the treatment so that at this point... Yes, this is really short but the longest, the longer form is something I can't remember exactly the word in it, but if I'm not wrong, it mentions some kind of criminal code, the word was court. It says that MC represents TDS against water in court. That's why it's working. By the way, yes, this is a good question. This is the very first time, as I told you, I'm giving this kind of answer. So this is the version 0. But I used to improve myself and my presentation so maybe next time. The first time, the version 0.1 could be much better, of course. So the role of MC formally is to welcome first or review all membership records, meaning that people may apply and ask it to be a member but they may just reply to our invitation to stay to renew their membership. Check if conditions are satisfied in every case for the new ones of the renewal. The conditions are that in the past three months, or six, it depends if they're new or renewable, they must have done something and something doesn't mean development, for example. It could be that, but also something else, just like what we see, marketing and more, many more things. And again, this is the topic of my next lecture in the afternoon, my stage 10. And I approve of a check, obviously, basing on the result of this research. Then we have to handle board elections, which are going to be at the end of the year, let's say, starting from October and so on. This is an analysis of the complex system of rotation that is by infographics, let's say, that I used to do on every election, because it's not that easy. Many of them, it's not that complicated, but we use a system called Helios-Modig, which is the web platform, and then we process the ballots via MIX as TV, an algorithm, which is not micro-mix, it's just a money difference. Yes, it is. Really, war input should be very simple. And then we have, again, to handle border trustee complaint that we've never happened before. This is the formal what's written in the statute. What is not explicitly written in the statute is this part that we are trying to care about, to grow our foundation and to strive to get better. So, finally, by deserving people to grow the F-member number, this is something that we are always trying to do. And we asked for help. For example, Cisco, who left the room, he is, as you may know, the QA engineer. So, he knows much better than us who is contributing at least in the development or something that is under his control, the QA, it's only about reporting, triaging and whatever. So, it happened many times and he suggested to us, hey, look, this person is not yet a member, but he's contributing a lot. And thus we have a template, and you see that, to invite those kind of people to join. Then, keep official documents, obviously, and database. This is also the very part that is on duty for the chairman, so I have to sign the paper to send to Berlin with a number, every quarter, we have such a register, such a log, to send to Berlin authorities with a list of actual and current members. And then try to be most inclusive and foster diversity. This is something recent, recently we have taken out say, kind of a mission. Well, let's say that we just try to let the foundation be more diverse and inclusive, but not talking just about the gender, but also about ethnic, sort of places in the world to have the right representation of the various continents and countries in the world. This is the composition of the membership committee. Formerly, it was five past two, at the beginning. Then I was elected, and he said that, you know, everything was disrupted, my pathway. Don't talk about it. What happened is that many times the membership committee has been just like a place to dive into the board, meaning that you stay in the membership committee, so you acquire competencies, skill, you get more involved in the governance of the foundation, and one day you decide, I want to try kind of relating myself for the board, and that's what happened. To be honest, especially when I asked for this modification, I was a little bit upset because I felt that just like kind of betrayal, but being more involved and staying in, after some year, I realized that it is not that. It is correct, it is natural that you get experience, and that you may feel ready to stand in the board. Is that five and two deputies, or five and four deputies? Yes, sorry. It means that five are the four members, and formerly we had two deputies, now we have four deputies, just because it happened that we run out of deputies, because yes, someone has to stand for the board, someone has to resign, or get killed, or leave the foundation or whatever, and in this case we shouldn't lack deputies, because if someone else from the former, from the official, let's say, Membership Committee should resign or whatever, we don't have any deputies left. So that's why I asked, and I obtained this modification, so now the Membership Committee has five official members and four deputies, and at the moment we have three deputies, for example, because of the problem at the beginning with Miklush and Yelena, being affiliated with the same company, so Miklush, opt out, Yelena stayed, and one of the deputies got killed. So at the moment we already started, from the very start of this term, with three deputies, because of that, I mentioned. Then, these are some references about us, they are, I have to say, Adelaide, when I will share the slides, you can click it, there are mostly wiki pages. The first one is the history with all the members of the Membership Committee, in the history, historically, and these are the minutes of the meetings, because at the end they have to be published for the very white people, and we meet in person, no, sorry, we meet, not in person, I wanted to decide who is in, who is out, and whoever, and in person just twice a year, at FOSDA, and here, maybe not here, after the Libra conference. This is very least. Then we try to have some more meetings about all the topics I mentioned before. And this is a workflow, so what we have to do and how to do it, so approval of a rule, what to check, what to see, and whatever. These are the areas to be member, but I will explain later in my next presentation, sorry for the flickering, this is my laptop, which is burnt, just like me. This is made exactly here in an area two years ago at KDE Academy, when I was doing marketing, as you can see, with an Indian eye, really nice. And that was our stand, the back side, close to the other stand, and I will tell you about that later, quite a bit of confusion. And so these areas look about our marketing documentation, documentation which includes also supporting other people, and translation, quality assurance infrastructure, design, finally, but not last development of the day. And for each of these, I didn't correlate them to be not too much boring, but there are platforms to be observed and checked to see if this kind, because we need evidence. The problem that we should come to here and mention probably is that we need evidence. So for example, with marketing, it's very easy to give a lecture how to demonstrate that. I should provide a video for me or the slides, and that's what we look for. The poster of the event with my name, or the program, whatever. Something that gives us evidence, because otherwise, everyone could ask to be a member. And another thing I forgot to mention is that being a member of the Diamond Foundation, the difference is that you have the power, let's say, to vote and to be elected. So the only difference being a member of the community or to be a member of the Diamond Foundation is to have your voice in the governance of the foundation. And so, enthuse in the project. So, ask what went by Telegram, ISE, that are all the platforms to be checked. This is something Gustavo is going to explain more deeply. And there's a tool we use called MCF, which is a membership management from Telegram. It's a common line tool. And this is quite a problem because not everyone is so used to the common line. But, for example, I've never been using that completely. I use it for just inquiries, but who is enthused? A member enthused is the former, where to call him, is Gustavo. He is using it to the whole process. And there are also some other problems we have to solve because this tool has now pioneered almost. This is our desiderata, meaning that we are looking forward to have a new instrument, more modern, and to ease our work because all the problems we have seen before, I have seen it written, whatever, we have to check them manually. Which is a boring thing, almost because this is something that can be automated. So it has no sense that human time has to be spent to do that kind of stuff. Is this because of the SSO? Does that make sense? No, no, no. I mean... See how everybody else is using it in different... Indeed, also, also. Yeah, the Wiki on Godzilla and when I do the monthly leave office, that's a problem to gather all this data. Yes, but at the moment, apart from that, at the moment we don't have any kind of automatic system to gather information about them. We have the bad dashboard which is almost incomprehensible to us. Yeah, because the research there are, I don't know what kind of syntax, but I couldn't find even myself. So I made it. And so we are looking forward and probably will be tender if no internal effort will be available and we'll see that later. We are writing the specification for these two and that is a kind of mock-up born the day before yesterday. No wonder I wasn't playing. I would like to have this kind of page, for example. This is main and the numbers are invented. So I don't do... I don't know if... I mean, completely invented. And just like, let's say, a kind of Facebook page, something that, where I can see the numbers of each member, just introducing surname, first name or member number. And also another thing we would like to have is a global page to have statistics, meaning that if someone asked me, who would be the board, for example, and they did at the last meeting, what about the membership? Are we growing or are we decreasing? At the moment I have to recall my name, I roughly know that, but I would like to have something more precise and be able to push a button and that immediately. I would say real-time, but at least last time, last check statistics. This is something we are going to ask. Finally, we have the corner cases, which is where we should be able to concentrate and spend time instead of the... of made-of-world things. Corner cases are people who do not contribute enough in six months to understand why, because sometimes it's a matter of a big deal, for example. And this is something really sensible. It's delicate. It's not easy to save someone who is ill, and that's the reason, finally, because he's not contributing anymore, to say, I'm sorry, but I can't renew your membership. I can assure you, it's tricky, it's really difficult. By the way, and I, even in this moment, in one case, are bad people. By the way, other corner cases are once in a while, we call it springs. We had such kind of trouble with the Albanian community, because they used to... To be honest, I like this, because they meet in person together, and they, let's say, may translate the whole program for, I don't know, 50 pages of weekly, whatever. And this is cool, especially because they used to do that in person. But from the stated point of view, the problem is that they do once in a while. And this is something tricky for us. So we are also, these are the corner cases. So we have to encourage them, and I was at their Oskal, and then we had the conference in Tirana, and every time I had to encourage them to be a little more regular with these meetings, for example, they're lovely. Anyway, other corner cases are people who did a lot in the past, but not anymore. Closer to the first part. Or there is also someone who answered us, ah, this is a waste of time, you know me, you know what I do, why should I, because at the moment I'm an automatic reply, automatic name, sorry, asks for your old data, and what you're doing, just like if you were a new member. This is something we are working on, because indeed we may simplify and reduce the amount of data required. We could also, we are talking about this, we could also just ask yes or no. We want to say a lot, because indeed we know that. So there is also people responding, ah, this is a waste of time, you know me, you know what I do, why are you going to anoint me with a special name, which is automatic anyway. And also this is another point, no reaction to emails. For example, given that by the stated you have to confirm you're willing to be a member, if we say the automatic way, saying, hey, my mission is last day, you should please confirm if you want to stay or not. If you do not confirm, we can't let you stay in. And the problem is that sometimes mail goes as far, for example. So we have to contact that somehow personally via telegram or whatever, Facebook. People who knows him or her and that are things that happen. And again, these are the cases where it will be deserving they will be deserving of time, of human time. That's all. I'm sorry I've been a little bit long, so there is no time I agree, I guess. Well, probably a couple of minutes. Okay, so in the meanwhile, thank you.