Hey, John Plocher wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: >> FWIW, I'd *strongly* advocate that any membership is pro-active. > > In the link I included I suggested: > > The use case for joining a community becomes: > o create an account on opensolaris.org > o go to a community's web page > o click on "become an observer". > > This makes you a Community Member.
I'd actually totally agree with this if there wasn't already a constitution already written - you might want to re-read section 3. > To become more involved you need to ask (or be asked) to advance to > Contributer status; then again to become a Core Contributer. I still don't personally see the benefit of coming a Contributor vs Core Contributor right now - there's very little difference other than voting rights and I'd like to think that there will be few (if any) formal votes on the community and decisions are based on general consensus. > I agree that the contributer stages need to be driven by people asking > to transition; this implies that they get some benefit by being one. > What is that benefit? That is, > > What can Members do that non-members can't? > What can Contributers do that Members can't? > What can Core Contributers do that Contributers can't? Members are 'Core Contributors' only according to the constitution. Members get voting rights. Essentially 'Participants' (or observers) are at the same level as Contributors right now. Being a Contributor is just another step closer to being a Core Contributor, and hence Member. > (If the answer is only "allowed to participate in more bureaucracy", > I doubt if anyone will want to be promoted.) Well, I for would care enough to be wanting to be able to vote for a set of directors each year, but you're right, that may not necessarily be enough motivation. At the end of the day, there's nothing other than the recognition from peers (unless we start handing out opensolaris.org mail aliases). > This all sounds reasonable - make it *easy* to observe things because > the vast majority of a community is made up of users and watchers; > only a very small percentage (less than 5% in my experience) > will be contributers, and only a few of /those/ will be Core. You're absolutely right, and I think that's how things should have been done previously. If we're to grow the community, we want that small percentage to increase over time. I'm just not sure we're in the position to be able (or want) to do that right now. Glynn
