On Jan 25, 12 16:11:48 -0600, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On even years of membership anniversary (that would be year 2, 4, 6...) a member gets an automated e-mail.
I'd appreciate this. If there are links in the email, where I could activly confirm that I am still interested in openSUSE, I'd be happy to click on [Confirm]
- If the e-mail bounces and there is no other means to contact the person than the person is removed as a member. A mail can bounce due to an outage or error somewhere. Please don't remove me from the members list, for a technical one-time? glitch.
- If the person does not respond within two weeks, another e-mail is sent. If after 2 additional weeks no response is received the person is removed as a member.
That is 2 reminders, every two year. Assume I have a 50% chance of missing such an email, chances are high that I get kicked every 4 years.
I think 2 week turnaround time is just too conservative given the nature of open source participation. There are valid reasons why someone may not be checking their email for a month or so.
Why should the alive signal be restricted to email? I am much more active in the build service, than in forums or mailing lists. Do we have statistics of activity?
A response to the received e-mail should include a short list of areas in the project where the member was active during the past two years.
Why this? Autodetecting areas of activity would be much more efficient for everybody. Examples below.
I would like to propose that we allow a *waiver* period. Meaning, you are allowed one period of inactivity, as long as you say you still wish to be a member. E.g., you've been active, but you were not active in the last membership period. That's okay. But if the second membership expiration period comes up ...
Huch? "membership expiration periods"? That sounds really negative. How about something positive like: For a range of activities, I get reminders telling me, that it was 1 year ago that I a) updated my profile on connect b) posted to a forum, c) edited the wiki d) showed up in a mailing list e) checked a package in the build service, f) clicked a 'like' to support the current board. (even if I failed to vote for the guys, I may want to say I am happy.) any such reminder could offer me links to do all of these options each time. Showing me links. That is invitive. And my response would not need to rely one particular medium. Also, (just brainstoming) the various login pages could hold just the same messages for me. So that this communication would not need to rely on email at all. Or (uaaah, scary thought) maybe I'd like to sponsor opensuse by sending my 5 EUR every year. Would that confirm membership too? Then, after multiple years, of not doing any of the advertised actions, I'd get warnings, that my membership appears to be dead. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 say #263A!__/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, J.Guild, F.Imendoerffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg), Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. ⺠-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org