And as a follow up thought I am sure this topic has led to some thoughts and some ideas about changing how the openSUSE Project is governed, the role and purpose of Members, and such Any such changes will require a vote by openSUSE Membership, that's our established process for such things and so, it is in the interest of anyone who wants to see such changes to actually encourage this clean up of the Membership list as a precursor, so any such votes can have a clear mandate of the currently active voting members this community We don't want a situation, as we've had before, where the results are cast doubt upon due to low turnout. On 2 October 2015 at 14:23, Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
We've discussed this repeatedly on this list now
the 'scanning' is just the starting point, to reduce the number of people we have to contact directly to find if they are still interested in being an openSUSE Member
Anyone who wishes to remain a member, but inactive, will have the opportunity to do so
No one will be removed from openSUSE membership automatically, and even in the cases of non-response, anyone who wishes to have their Membership reinstated will be able to
Membership is a key part of this projects governance, and the current situation where membership votes have a terrible turn out is not acceptable
We need to ensure that those with voting rights in our projects Governance structure have an interest in the project
Scanning for activity as the first step, then reaching out to the rest to check if they're still interested, is the way we've chosen to do it
Please stop flogging the dead horse and insinuating an impending apocalypse. We've taken great care here to make sure the only people who will loose their voting privileges in the official openSUSE Governance process are only people who don't want to retain that privilege.
On 2 October 2015 at 14:18, Mathias Homann <Mathias.Homann@opensuse.org> wrote:
Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2015, 13:41:15 schrieb Cornelius Schumacher:
On Thursday, October 01, 2015 05:16:40 PM jdd wrote:
So I will begin the work now, by hand. If any body want to help, it would be a good thing as there are around 500 members to test. To help, you need to be already a member officially.
I will be very open here: To me it feels very creepy to scan all members. I think this has more potential to destroy community than to build community.
+1
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