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Re: [opensuse-project] Members, application and voting
- From: Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:22:42 +0200
- Message-id: <20100623002242.GH32368@xxxxxxxxx>
Le mardi 22 juin 2010, à 19:22 +0200, Marcus Moeller a écrit :
The way I see it, we should honor those people by encouraging them to
become members -- because they would be accepted as such: their
contributions are certainly good enough! They'd get an opensuse.org
address (which is cool) and they'd be able to vote, among other things.
And the fact that they explicitly apply to the membership means that
they explicitly care about voting. Some people might contribute from
time to time but not care that much about voting.
I understand that some people see this as a restriction on who can vote.
But the goal is just to restrict to the people who care enough about the
project to contribute, and who want to vote.
Or to clarify: I still don't understand why you would explicitly not
want to be a member but still vote.
Vincent
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I would like to find a way to honor contribution from non-members as
well as from members.
As mentioned in earlier posts, a useful contribution is, if you submit
and monitor a bug, help others on the regular communication channels,
hand out openSUSE CDs/DVDs/help new users to get started, hang around
at a openSUSE booth, ..or..or..or.
All of these contributions does not require a membership account and I
guess 80% of those ppl don't even think about nor want to become
members (either because they think contribution does not require
membership, or they are afraid of not getting accepted or whatever).
The community consists of all of them: contributors without membership
account, members, and even lurkers (which has to be transformed to
contributors, immediately :))
So one way to get started to honor all these ppl is to involve them in
voting process. I even think a 'lurker' (sorry I don't really like
that word), should be able to decide which direction his/her beloved
distro should go.
The way I see it, we should honor those people by encouraging them to
become members -- because they would be accepted as such: their
contributions are certainly good enough! They'd get an opensuse.org
address (which is cool) and they'd be able to vote, among other things.
And the fact that they explicitly apply to the membership means that
they explicitly care about voting. Some people might contribute from
time to time but not care that much about voting.
I understand that some people see this as a restriction on who can vote.
But the goal is just to restrict to the people who care enough about the
project to contribute, and who want to vote.
Or to clarify: I still don't understand why you would explicitly not
want to be a member but still vote.
Vincent
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