Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > 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.
Hmm... the JavaScript on the ARC community page still lists him. > The current constitution has the concept of Contributor Emeritus, > which is not quite the same as "in memoriam", but may serve the > purpose here. I'm not sure.... to me Emeritus sounds like a voluntary departure (retirement), and I don't think that's exactly the same. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeritus > > what do you think? I still think it would be nice to have a special page somewhere where people like Joe can be remembered. - Garrett > > Valerie
