On Oct 13, 2009, at 06:09, John Plocher wrote: >> Also, we need to make sure that it's the membership committee ... >> We don't want to create the centralized >> bureaucracy necessary to impose common standards on all the >> independent collectives, > > We don't centralize the standards - the collectives do it by awarding > "Contributor grants" to their participants. All the > Secretary/membership committee does is to verify that the collective > indeed granted the Contributorship for something the collective deemed > substantial - a secretarial responsibility that is there in the > current constitution as well.
However, it's completely appropriate for the community to expect that every collective is using criteria that set an equivalent benchmark for "substantial" everywhere. It's the OGB's responsibility to police that, and to have the authority to withhold Electorate status from a collective should it set the line too low. Right now I believe section 1.4 has it about right in "weight"and if any correction is needed it is in wording, not in the shape of the overall process. S.
