Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, he is still in the polling database, just expired. That JavaScript
> should probably note that. Someone more familiar with the workings of
> poll.opensolaris.org could probably comment.
>
>>> 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.
>
> I'm just thinking that getting a constitutional ammendment may
> be hard, but I do want to recognize his work. Perhaps we can set
> up a dedicated part of the site? This could be off the main site,
> or perhaps off the OGB page. Thoughts?
That would be fine. I think getting an amendment would be easy though,
the next voting round.
- Garrett
>
> Valerie
