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Re: [opensuse-project] Membership part II
On 02/17/2012 07:55 PM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
I'm a bit puzzled by this discussion, as it seems to focus on the wrong side
of matters, i.e. how to move people away from the project, not on how to win
people to contribute to openSUSE.

From my point of view the rules should be very simple:

* Everybody who identifies with the guiding principles of openSUSE is welcome
to join the project.
* People showing sustained contribution become official members of openSUSE.
* If a member doesn't vote for let's say two years the member becomes an
inactive member.
* The only difference of an inactive to an active member is that inactive
members don't have voting rights
* An inactive member can become an active member again by an informal request
to the membership officials team

I don't see the need to introduce additional mechanisms or the need for people
to repeatedly justify that they earn member status. Remember, we want to be an
inclusive community. So let's just keep things simple.

If you really see a need to clean the number of people eligible to vote from
inactive members, I would suggest to go with a simple process like described
above.

But on the other hand it also would be worth to think, if this is needed at
all. The only case where it's really relevant is if a quorum needs to be met
for a vote. The only quorum amongst members we have is for a forced reelection
of the board. So this might be more difficult, if there are a lot of inactive
members. This might be or or not be worth the effort to "inactivate" members.

But in any case, please keep it simple and inviting.

Yes, whatever we do needs to be reasonably straight forward and inviting. However, this approach ties sustained membership to voting only. In essence you are saying that once someone is a member we do not care about their contributions, we care only that they vote.

From my point of view membership should be about contribution first, everything else is second. You contribute and apply for membership and you earn the privilege of voting in project matters if accepted.

We have set up a "hurdle" of contributions to become a member, why would we not have the same expectation of someone who is a member?

Robert

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