I agree with what Dave Fisher says. I'd also prefer "unaffiliated" as the term of art to describe a person who contributes to a project on their own time without direction or compensation for such work from any company.
Craig > On Nov 4, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi Gunnar, > > I think that you present a reasonable scenario. We even allow individuals to > use an alias for their public names. We do want to know the real names on the > ICLA. > > Rather than “private donation” I think “unaffiliated” or “” is better. > > As you understand we want to know affiliation as a measure of diversity for > practical reasons. We are about Community over Code and want to avoid being > in a situation where a project is unviable because a majority of the > individuals were contributing through work and their employers made other > decisions. This happens all the time and is perfectly normal and expected. > > In the Incubator we want to assure that podlings are viable communities when > they graduate. In that assessment in my opinion unaffiliated committers and > PMC members are truly a plus for a community. Assuming that they can answer > asking why a committer was affiliated at the beginning of incubation and is > no longer may prove the diversity of the podling. Changes in affiliation > might be good signs too. > > Regards, > Dave > >> On Nov 4, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Gunnar Tapper <tapper.gun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've discussed this with a few individuals but would like to raise the >> discussion with a larger group. >> >> Situation >> >> As contributors to the ASF, we represents ourselves as individuals. Some of >> us contribute to projects as part of our employment, some of us donate our >> time privately. >> >> Discussion >> >> You the individual is asked to share your employer when going through >> processes such as graduation. I get the reason: to ensure diversity in the >> project. >> >> However, some of us are donating our private time and may therefore want to >> represent ourselves as a private donor rather than involve our employeer in >> the discussion. >> >> [Disclosure: I work for a company that is unlikely to have an issue with my >> involvement with ASF projects outside what my company cares for.] >> >> Proposal >> >> Anyone that chooses to do so can use "private donation" instead of the >> employer when representing affiliation. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> >> Gunnar >> *If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right.* > Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
