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 -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
