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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org