On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > > All this info should already be available as contextual information > to the webapp whenever a user is logged in. In particular, each Group > is responsible for promoting Participants into Contributers, and that > information is/should be available to the webapp. > > Assuming a webapp with access to that data, the process simplifies to > > 1. Log in to os.o > 2. Go to your individual profile page > 3. if you are already a contributer anywhere, there will be a > button that says [make me a member of the electorate]. > Press it. > > This assumes there is a per-group managed process for Participants > to become Contributers, but all we (OGB) should care about that is > that the various group leaders follow the membership committee-approved > guidelines.
Which there shouldn't be. The whole point of the reorganisation as I understood it was to completely separate constitutional affairs from the day to day functioning of the community. Collectives should be free to elect contributors and leaders as they see fit without any constitutional consequences or having to meet anybody else's standards. Each collective is responsible for its own affairs. We seem to have ended up in a situation where "contributor" implies "can do X"; therefore the criteria for being a contributor are really "needs to, wants to, or is expected to, do X". This is a little backward, as it makes the link between being a "contributor" and actually having materially contributed something a little tenuous. And it makes being a contributor both task-based and ephemeral - people move on. So, given that Electoral rights are completely independent of operational roles, we can't derive someone's eligibility to vote from the operational rights that the webapp should be able to give us. Which unfortunately makes the idea of "Press It" a non-starter. Which means that the application goes directly to the Membership Committee, and any contributor or leader status you have is noted as evidence that may be used in support of your application. (In many cases, it may be enough.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
