On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 10:54 +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 09:43:19 Axel Braun wrote:
Beside of what others have stated in between, voting would be the least reason for me to join an openSource community. If thats your target, you better go to politic parties.
I completely agree that voting is not an important reason to join the openSUSE community. But that's not what is meant here.
This is confusing being part of the community and being a formal "member". The status of being an official "openSUSE member" gives you voting rights, the email address and the IRC cloak, nothing else. So it is the equivalent of joining the "political openSUSE party" ;-)
But there is much more than the "members", there is the whole community who does things and works on common goals or who just feels as part and uses openSUSE happily. This is the group which is important.
We have reiterated many times that naming it "member" is misleading and has confused many people. My proposal to fix this is to lower the barrier of the membership so much that everybody who wants to be part of the community can be and is a member.
Yes, "Voting member" and "Senior member" has been suggested as new term for this elevated role. "Citizen" is also an alternative. Citizenship is something you have to apply for, it's more permanent and it grants you right to vote. Or name this group: "Member of openSUSE Trustees" or "Member of the openSUSE Officials" But yes, I too think "Member" is misleading. So does Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_community#Membership Rolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org