On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Its my unfortunate duty as facilitator of the ARC community to note that Joe > Kowalksi should have his membership within the OpenSolaris community > terminated, in accordance with Article 4.3 of the OpenSolaris Constitution. > > I'm not sure how this should work -- Article 4.3 says that membership should > be terminated, but doesn't necessarily imply that his CC grants should > expire, upon a members death. However, I don't think our process (tools) are > able to cope with the concept of membership terminating before the CC grants. > > Probably the best thing to do is to revoke the CC grant, but it would be nice > if there was a way to recognize Joe's past contributions with some form of > non-voting honorarium -- "Membership in memoriam" or some such. I'd humbly > ask the OGB to consider the creation of an amendment to the constitution > creating such a membership, and nominating Joe Kowalksi as a recipient. > > While its not pleasant to consider, as our community continues to grow, and > continues "on", its inevitable that we will occasionally (hopefully only very > infrequently!) lose members.
Hi Garrett - Joe's grant has already expired, so it's not necessary to "revoke" it, per se. The current constitution has the concept of Contributor Emeritus, which is not quite the same as "in memoriam", but may serve the purpose here. what do you think? Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
