I am a core contributor in the advocacy community. My job is to get as
many people to use OpenSolaris as possible. I understand the purpose of
this policy, and I will vote in the future...
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Jim Grisanzio ??:
> hey ...
>
> If you are already a Core Contributor you have already received this
> mail from the OGB. But I wanted to forward the thread to
> advocacy-discuss and osug-leaders to alert people who may be seeking
> CC status in the future.
>
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=101770&tstart=0
>
> Basically, the new OGB policy says that if you become a CC (which
> means you'd be a Member with voting privileges) you have to state to
> the OGB that you understand what's involved with being a CC and that
> you will participate in governance -- which means voting in elections.
>
> We don't want a large number of CCs who are not participating in
> elections because that makes it impossible to evolve our governance
> structures. Remember, the current constitution mandates an
> "affirmative vote of a majority of the Members of record" to make
> changes to the constitution. In this past election, the newly proposed
> constitution failed for just this reason. It got a big majority of
> votes /from those who voted/ but a minority of votes from the total
> Members of record. That means that too many people simply didn't vote.
> This new OGB policy will not solve the problem entirely, but it's just
> a reasonable attempt to educate people about their responsibility.
> I'll update the Advocacy pages to reflect this change and just make it
> a part of the process for creating new Advocacy CCs.
>
> Also, in late March, about 80 or so Advocacy CCs dropped off the
> voting rolls (normal expirations), so we have about 35 or so active
> CCs now. You can see your status here (by searching for your name
> under the Grants tab): http://poll.opensolaris.org/.
>
> Remember, under the current system being a Core Contributor makes you
> a Member of the community, and that's all about voting in elections
> and participating in governance. If you are not interested in voting,
> you should be Contributor instead.
>
> Governance: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/
>
> Jim
>
