On 03/27/2012 01:07 PM, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
Hi all, this is a statement from the membership officials to the current discussion and proposal about maintaining the opensuse membership[1].
The proposal suggests to re-evaluate each members' contributions every 2 years. We think that is not doable by us, even with great tools that gather information automatically, and would give us lots of discussions with members that lose their status.
We support the proposal to set a 'passive' attribute to a member that didn't vote in the board elections for 2 periods. With the possibility to get 'active' again anytime with a simple mail to us.
If one describes how a right is revoked than one should also describe how it is regained not just possibility=uncertainty
That 'passive' attribute would be in no way taking any perks from the member beside the voting, which he can re-gain anytime.
if that is doable by just an email as stated above why create a job to put member in passive status and another one when he/she writes an email to regain it. If 100 people are put in to a passive status and 50 of them emails one has 150 tasks to do
Accompanied by that we propose to add a 'none of them' option in the board elections, so that everyone can vote, even if he does not like the candidates.
Again one is tied to voting whatever the way the above is phrased. Choosing to vote or not to vote is a personal choice and should not be tied to the person being active or passive.
The goal of all of this is that the project is able to detect if an election or vote is valid, by defining that the vote needs for example a participation of more then 60% of 'active' members.
Never heard of an election being invalidated due to less than X percentage of than those eligible to vote. Those who vote are the basis of the calculation. Show me a democratic election where this above method as mentioned was applied. Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org