On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > ... good stuff...
> So, to become a Member, someone: > > 1. Makes a significant contribution worthy of note > 2. Is sponsored by an Advocate, either by asking them or being asked by > them > 3. Is accepted by the Membership Committee My perspective on this is very similar, but tries to frontload the effort expended by the central authority: 0.: Assumptions 0.1 The standard for being a member is that you must have contributed something significant [i.e., the expectation set in the constitution] to some part of the OpenSolaris Community 0.2 The OGB maintains a (probably 3-part) "Contributor Promotion Procedures" document that details a set of equivalent expectations geared towards interpretation by collectives of the 3 major types. This document only sets fuzzy boundaries, but gives both positive and negative examples to help groups determine the "intent" of the expectations. (if you do <...this sort of thing...> in a User Group, you meet the requirements; if you only do <...that...>, you don't. In a Project... etc) 0.3 Each collective instance uses these expectations to measure their own activities and needs when deciding whether or not someone in their community has indeed contributed something significant; if so, they are awarded the rank of Contributor by the Leaders of that collective. So, to become a Member, someone: 1. Makes a significant contribution worthy of note 2. Is awarded Contributor status by their collective 3. Any Contributor of any collective can, at any time choose to become a member of the Electorate 4. The OGB Secretary (or a membership committee responsible to the Secretary) reviews and accepts the application. This is a mix of Global expectations with delegation and trust pushed down to the Leaders of the various collectives. The OGB's role is simply to do the recordkeeping and sanity checks. In a perfectly supported technological environment, the promotion to Contributor would be something any Leader could do on the website, and once promoted, any Contributor could edit their personal profile to request Membership into the Electorate group. The Membership committee/Secretary would then simply run thru the list of requests on a regular basis.... -John
