The Polkadot Fellowship is a rules-based ranked-membership organisation administered and empowered through blockchain logic hosted on Kusama. The Fellowship aims to embody the expertise over the protocol, its formalisation and design which is utilised by any realisation of the Polkadot meta-protocol (i.e.: a node implementation), as well as any specific realisation of the Polkadot runtime and any code or technology primarily utilised for the routine maintenance of the network and without which would seriously inhibit the network's potential to sustain itself.

This post opens the discussion for the next phase of the collective (after its seeding by TC motion no.166): the acceptance of candidacies by new potential members and their promotion to Dan I.

In short, the acceptance of a new member in the Fellowship is, for now, a 2-step process, including:

1. The submission of a proposal by a member of a new candidacy (in conversation with a potential candidate)
2. The submission of a proposal by a member of the promotion of the candidate (if step 1 is approved)

Note: In order for any account to register and become a Candidate for the Fellowship in a trustless manner for a basic deposit, one change will need to be done in the pallet to allow this origin. We are working on this change.

With the great help from the Technical Education Team by W3F (thank you, Radha!) the complete process on how the Fellowship can accept new candidates and members can be reviewed HERE: please leave your feedback on this post!