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		<h1>Committer Members</h1>
		<p>Before you can become a Committer Member of the Eclipse Foundation,
			you must first become a Committer. While these things may sound
			similar, they are actually quite different.</p>
		<ul class='midlist'>
			<li><strong>Committers</strong> are those people who have write
				access to the source repositories and other content on the Eclipse
				Foundation's website. A good description can be found in Exhibit D
				of the <a
				href="/org/documents/eclipse_membership_agreement.pdf">Eclipse
					Membership Agreement</a>: &quot;<em>In order for an individual to
					become a Committer, another Committer for the project (or
					component) must nominate that individual. Once an individual is
					nominated, the existing Committers for the project (or component)
					will vote using the process and rules established in the
					project&rsquo;s corresponding Charter. When a new project is
					started, the corresponding PMC will nominate an initial set of
					Committers for approval by the Executive Director (or his
					delegates). Becoming a Committer is a privilege that is earned by
					contributing and showing discipline and good judgment. It is a
					responsibility that should be neither given nor taken lightly.</em>&quot;
				<br> <br> Read the &quot;Becoming a Committer&quot; section below
				for more details.
			</li>
			<li><strong>Committer Members</strong> are those Committers who
				decide to join the Eclipse Foundation as Members. Note that people
				who work for a Member company who are Committers do not need to join
				as individual Committer Members. They already have all of the rights
				and privileges of a Committer Member. It is also important to
				understand that you do not have to join the Foundation as a
				Committer Member to be a Committer. <br> <br> One of the important
				benefits of becoming a Committer Member is that you are eligible to
				vote in the elections for the Committer Representatives on the
				Eclipse Board of Directors. <br>
			</li>
		</ul>

		<h2>Becoming a Committer</h2>
		<p>If you are interested in becoming a Committer at Eclipse, the first
		and most important question is which project do you want to contribute
		to?</p>
		<ul class='midlist'>
			<li>There are many <a href="http://projects.eclipse.org">projects</a>; you should
				start with the project that is the most interesting and most
				exciting to you.</li>
		</ul>
		<p>Second, a few operational details:</p>
		<ul class='midlist'>
			<li>Please note that the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/forums/">forums</a>
				are a good place to make contact with a project. To request a
				Eclipse Foundation password to post on the forums, report bugs and enter feature requests, please
				go to our <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/site_login/createaccount.php">account
					creation form</a>.
			</li>
			<li>We distinguish between two similar sounding, and related,
				organizations: the Eclipse Foundation is a member-funded
				not-for-profit corporation that supports the Eclipse Open Source
				Projects. The Projects are the open source community where the
				development happens. This distinction is important because you can
				be an active developer and contributor to the open source Projects
				without being a &quot;member&quot; of the Eclipse Foundation. (Most
				of our non-affiliated open source committers are also members of the
				Foundation, but it is not a requirement.) There is no cost to being
				an individual member of the Foundation.</li>
		</ul>
		<p>Third, about becoming a developer and committer on the Eclipse Open
			Projects:</p>
		<ul class='midlist'>
			<li>Becoming a Committer at Eclipse is a multi-stage process. The
				basic rule is that all new committers are voted in by the existing
				committers on a project. Similar to other open source communities,
				we operate as a meritocracy....which among other things translates
				to mean that you have to prove your abilities before you can become
				a committer.<br>
			</li>
			<li>The best way to start contributing to Eclipse is to start with
				well-formed bug reports and feature requests for project(s) that you
				are primarily interested in. Build a good reputation with the
				existing committers on a project. Over time, start proposing code
				enhancements and volunteer time to the project. Then once you have
				demonstrated your skills to the existing team, ask a current project
				committer to sponsor you as a committer. The election process is
				defined in each top-level project's charter.</li>
		</ul>
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