On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 13:07 +0200, 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.
That 'passive' attribute would be in no way taking any perks from the member beside the voting, which he can re-gain anytime. 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.
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.
Greetings from the membership officials
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members#Maintaining_your_membership
-- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (11.03.1952 - 11.05.2001)
It's good to hear from the membership team about the feasibility of the process. That was something we tried to bring the point up in the previous discussions that process needs to be the domain of the membership team to decide, not the overall Project. But I'm curious on the policy aspect. In the case of our discussions, I believe we felt it would be more reasonable to determine inactive status if a person does not respond in some way (email or form or whatever) versus determination via whether a person has voted or not. Since we've used scripts to send out member emails in the past, how is it not feasible this time around and then simply inactivate the ones that don't respond? Furthermore, if we are going to use voting as the litmus test, then I would argue we would have to institute that policy "as of now" meaning past non-votes don't count. It wouldn't be fair to "penalize" someone for an action that wasn't considered a penalty before now. If that's the case, then we can't inactivate someone until 2 elections from now. Just my humble opinion. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org