Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi,

Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48:
Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity.
Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we
don't want LibCon to happen.

by that, we would exclude a large amount of developers, and I am sure want to have them on the list. While it might be indeed something to attract more people applying for membership, I think excluding them from all votings (rather than only elections, which is what membership is about), does not feel right - but I am happy to hear some more thoughts, since we seem to have mixed feelings here. ;)

Florian
Perhaps we should have 2 tiered membership, full members, developers who contribute on a regular and ongoing basis and such, and associate members, those who have been on the mail lists since the founding of TDF, and who contribute in less provable ways, like promoting the program, giving others the program on disk etc. I have been on the discuss list with OOo since about the turn of the century, and actually would like to contribute to the program in limited ways, like sending word lists for the spelling dictionary, and enhancing the autocorrect function if any developer is willing to help me to do it. I haven't done any programming since working with BASIC back in the 1980s, so I can't contribute much to the code, but I would like to do whatever I can.

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