Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Marcus Moeller <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Bryen.

> So for us, we have two real challenges:  1)  Keep the term "Member" or
> come up with something better?  We're always open to suggestions.  and
> 2) Turn up the volume on Henne's beloved "Just do it!" mantra and get
> people to really get it into their heads that if you want to contribute,
> just do it.  You do not need our approval of membership to be a
> contributor.  And if you find an obstacle that prevents you from
> contributing let us know.  But membership in and of itself is in no way

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.

If you need some kind of limitation, we could e.g. decide that a
Novell account is necessary for voting. I personally would keep it as
open as possible.

Greets
Marcus
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