Hi On 7 August 2016 at 13:48, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote:
> > On 7 August 2016 at 10:44, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> > wrote: > >> Instead of raising the barrier to entry, I would prefer to enforce our >> currency policy ("are you still interested in being a member?" - every >> year) so that hopefully only active members get to vote. >> > > I don't think that's precisely what is bein debated :) > > Rather, the issue is that we have to define who it is we consider worth > asking if they are interested to be a member. I am happy to cast as wide a > net as possible, while Caryl would like to cast the net wider in some ways > and narrower in others, and would like SLOBs to decide rather than the > delegated committee. > Do you have any further comments on how wide a net to cast here? On 5 August 2016 at 19:11, I wrote in this thread: > > I agree that we could clarify how we determine what level of contribution > counts to make one eligible for membership. > > I propose the following are sufficient: > > - owning a computer or being part of an organization that owns computers > that regularly use Sugar > > - creating a wiki account and making 1 edit to the wiki > > - posting to a SL mailing list > > - contributing a patch to a sugar software package > > - owning a laptop.org or sugarlabs.org email account, now or in the past > > What are possible verifiable criteria are possible? Should any of these > not count? > I saw https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members says, bold emphasis mine: Any "significant and sustained" contributor to Sugar Labs is eligible for membership. Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition, a contributor generally must have* contributed to a non-trivial improvement* of the Sugar project or Sugar Labs activity. Contributions may be *code, documentation, translations, maintenance of project-wide resources, running a Sugar deployment, or other non-trivial activities which benefit Sugar Labs.* Membership eligibility is an individual determination: while contributions made in the course of employment will be considered, they will generally be ascribed to the individuals involved, rather than accruing to all employees of a "contributing" corporation. The Membership and Elections Committee will oversee membership applications (Please apply by sending email to members at sugarlabs.org). I think all the items on my list above are trivial, and therefore if we continue to use that membership bar, then none of those should count, but I think most items can be 'significant and sustained' if they are qualified by a specific volume metric, ie, - managing an organization/deployment that regularly uses Sugar (note - this excludes sugar users from being members) - creating a wiki account and making 10+ edits to the wiki in the last 3-12 months - posting to a SL mailing list 10+ times in the last 3-12 months - contributing 10+ patches to any software package hosted in github.com/sugarlabs or http://git.sugarlabs.org in the last 3-12 months Should we include such criteria in the email to potential members, so they can confirm they are on par within 2016? If so, what should the criteria be? I am in favor of casting a wide net with a relatively low barrier, such that anyone who wants to be a member can say make 10 list emails or wiki edits 91 days or more before the election and qualify, but just saying "I want to be a member" without any participation in the last year can not. -- Cheers Dave
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