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<p>Following the resolution of issue #1 "Allow public access to
membership statistics", anyone may now see statistics on SPI
membership thanks to the 4 general metrics visible on <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://members.spi-inc.org/stats">https://members.spi-inc.org/stats</a></p>
<p>Nevertheless, SPI's membership remains mostly private. It is not
possible to tell whether someone is a member, to even confirm that
a member is a member, to tell what kind of persons applicants and
members are, or to tell which applications were rejected. Even
members may only see their own applications.<br>
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I request to make membership public or more public. I do not see
what part of the information currently stored in applications could
be private, so I think applications should be made public by
default, but at a minimum, it should be possible for one to make its
own applications public.<br>
<br>
Our associated project Debian already uses a web application which
makes its membership a lot more public than SPI's, which can be seen
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nm.debian.org/">https://nm.debian.org/</a><br>
This application is implemented in Python and licensed under the GNU
AGPL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/nm/nm2.git/tree/">https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/nm/nm2.git/tree/</a><br>
The membership requirements of Debian and SPI are different, but I
do not see SPI requirements which Debian does not have.<br>
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Making applications public would:<br>
<ol>
<li>make it much easier for potential members to evaluate whether
applying is worth it.</li>
<li>provide the data necessary for members to take enlightened
decisions about whether they should start evaluating
applications or review the membership process</li>
<li> provide credit to application managers</li>
<li>easy identifying possible bugs in the application process<br>
</li>
</ol>
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Filipus Klutiero
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.philippecloutier.com">http://www.philippecloutier.com</a></pre>
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