Le 03/06/2015 15:04, Cornelius Schumacher a écrit :
So to live up to our expectations as open community, to remove a barrier in becoming a contributor, to encourage people to join us, we could get rid of the validation and rejection step and just let everybody become a member who wants to.
This way the board would be the representative of all self-proclaimed members of the openSUSE community, which I think is exactly what it should be.
The work would still be done by those who are active. The decisions would still be taken by those who do the work. We still would have protection mechanisms like the veto power of the chairman of the board or the guiding principles.
But we would have a more open, more welcoming, more inclusive community. That's what I would really like to see.
We could imagine lot of mechanisms to ensure this, apart the letter. For example we could imagine a 6 month delay between the moment the membership is accepted and the moment a people can vote (to prevent mass subscription only for the vote). We could also revive the membership involvement verification that is already written in the rules. We could say: "thanks asking to be an openSUSE member, we are proud to welcome you to the openSUSE membership. As you may know, membership mean contributions of any sort (link to page), and is revised each year (as said in ... page). Do not hesitate to ask if you don't know how to contribute, we have tasks of all sorts, easy and difficult, for every kind of knowledge. Your first step now could be to subscribe to (opensuse mailing list or forum and present yourself :-)" jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org