Robert, Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 à 15:49 -0600, Robert Derman a écrit : > 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.
Slightly off topic but a quick comment: TDF members are not just developers; if you read bylaws we do ackowledge other, technical *or* non-technical contributions. Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
