I'd like to do a bit out of the box thinking on this one and see the $member discussion in a broader context as well. Currently the benefits of membership are: * lizards.opensuse.org blog account * IRC opensuse.org cloak * @opensuse.org mail alias * Right to vote the openSUSE board - and perhaps participate in other votes we do Do we want to open up all of this and open it up so that everybody can sign up and can get these benefits - or a part of it? This might be good from a marketing perspective since more people would call themselves $member and use their openSUSE org mail alias etc. Or do we want to continue giving these benefits based on merit? Somebody said in the discussion that he felt bad whenever we had to reject a person applying for membership. Why does it happen that people apply that are not active? What can be done here? Btw. how do other projects handle this? What names are Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. doing in this regard? Can anybody register and have these rights or to which is it bound? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126