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Adding Members
How members are added
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General Considerations

The FPA functions best with an active and participating membership. Thus it is in our interest to regularly add new members and move inactive members to that status.

  • The takes nominations from its existing members and from the larger FreeCAD community. If you know someone that you think would represent the community well, you may submit a nomination by emailing [email protected]
    • You may not nominate yourself

When proposing a vote to add members, the following criteria may be helpful:

  • Is this person recognized and respected in the FreeCAD community?
    • Consider the age of their account on the Forum
    • Consider participation in non-Forum FreeCAD activities (e.g. social media groups, video sharing sites)
    • Consider how often they have posted
    • Consider other ways in which they have contributed (translation, wiki, tutorials, etc.)
    • Read through some of their posts. Is their tone helpful and professional?
  • Is this person anonymous?

Adding General Assembly (GA) members

The process for adding members is designed to be straightforward and to encourage the participation of a variety of interested community members.

To add a member to the GA:

  • Contact them privately to see if they're interested
    • Point them to this handbook, particularly the page on expectations
  • Conduct a vote in the FPA Forum
  • When approved:
    • Add them to forum permissions so they can see the group
    • Update the roster

Adding Administrative Team (AT) members

Administrative team members should:

  • Have a low threshold to action --
    • They should be willing to take action, make changes, edit files, send pull requests, etc. without asking for permission
    • They must be willing to take action on votes as approved by the GA
  • Have a good understanding of how the FPA operates
  • Have a good history of availability and response

To add a GA member to the AT:

  • Contact them privately to see if they're interested
  • Conduct a vote in the FPA Forum
  • When approved
    • Add to FPA public and private repos
    • Update the roster
    • If the new member doesn't already have a wordpress.com account, have them create one. Then add it to the blog.freecad.org account so they can review and edit blog posts.