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<p>Hi,<br>
On 2015-06-28, I applied for SPI membership. I did not obtain any
followup until 2016-02-03, when I received the forwarded mail.</p>
<p>After such a delay, my interest in SPI was low. I thought that
was a big incident, and felt comforted to think that the
processing time for my application was not representative. I
thought my application would now be processed swiftly.</p>
<p>Yesterday, my application, managed by Martin Zobel-Helas, was
finally processed, and I was invited to vote in the 2016 board
election, which revived my interest in SPI and prompted me to
visit its discussion forums. To my surprise, I could not find any
mention of the issue discovered in February, even checking on
spi-general (although there are a couple of mails titled "New
members website / inactive contributing member cleanup", which,
while they apparently do not treat this issue, seem related). This
is why I am hereby forwarding the mail I received in February,
even though I have no idea how many applications were affected.<br>
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<p>I rarely apply for membership in a software project, but it was
unprecedented for me to apply to an opaque process like the SPI's
without being requested to do so. I wanted to send a mail to
report my experience, but I now realize that SPI actually has
statistics about the process's performance on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://members.spi-inc.org/stats">https://members.spi-inc.org/stats</a></p>
<p>These statistics follow:</p>
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<td>NC Applicants Pending Email Approval</td>
<td>a<br>
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<td>NC Members</td>
<td>b<br>
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<td>Contrib Membership Applications </td>
<td>c<br>
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<td>Contrib Members</td>
<td>d<br>
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<td>Application Managers</td>
<td>11</td>
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I do not precisely understand what each of these metrics means,
but this would certainly be most relevant for those wondering
whether they should apply for membership. Unfortunately, this page
is not accessible when not logged in. Could this be intentional?<br>
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<td>SPI Member application for Filipus Klutiero</td>
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<th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th>
<td>Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:03:57 +0000</td>
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<th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
<td>SPI Membership Committee <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:membership@spi-inc.org"><membership@spi-inc.org></a></td>
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<th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th>
<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:chealer@gmail.com">chealer@gmail.com</a></td>
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<pre>Dear Filipus Klutiero,
It has come to our attention that at some point (possibly some time ago)
you application for SPI contributing membership. However due to an issue
in the way the membership site worked it was possible to do this before
you had verified your email address and thus become a non-contributing
member.
This has now been rectified, both to make it clearer when logging in
that email verification is pending and also to prevent a contributing
membership application before that stage is complete. However your
application is still in this limbo state.
Should you wish to proceed with your SPI contributing membership
application please click on the following link to verify your email
address:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://members.spi-inc.org/verifyemail?emailkey=a808a96634dd9102c7f144ba8e27d5e8">https://members.spi-inc.org/verifyemail?emailkey=a808a96634dd9102c7f144ba8e27d5e8</a>
Alternatively go to:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://members.spi-inc.org/verifyemail">https://members.spi-inc.org/verifyemail</a>
And enter a808a96634dd9102c7f144ba8e27d5e8 as the verification code.
There is no need to resubmit your contributing application itself; once
you have validated your email it will enter the queue of applications
for the membership committee to process.
If you do not wish to proceed with SPI membership you can ignore this
email.
Apologies for the delay getting this issue resolved.
--
The SPI Membership Committee <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:membership@spi-inc.org"><membership@spi-inc.org></a>
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