Hi Simon,
On 04/05/2011 14:35, Simon Phipps wrote:
On 4 May 2011, at 11:50, Florian Effenberger wrote:
If we were to accept the application of everyone posting a few messages to the list, then
on the one hand we would have a large membership base, which is good. On the other hand,
it might get problematic justifying that. So, what we are trying to approach with the
membership process is that we want to actively engage community members, and then
granting them rights like to vote or to being voted for. To me it is obvious that someone
who "just" writes an e-mail now and then is not a member of TDF. Someone who
does more, and wants to be involved, should be a member indeed. Doing more can indeed
consist of writing e-mails, actively joining discussions, contributing... but it doesn't
have to necessarily.
As we've been considering the revision of the governance over at OSI, it's been clear we
need to offer a "membership" option to the many people who associate themselves
with Open Source without complicating OSI's official governance by having huge numbers of
people involved in it who may not be fully engaged. As a consequence, we are considering
having a membership category where people express their support (maybe by making a
donation) and gain some benefits (maybe an e-mail address or the right to describe
themselves as associated) but don't immediately become part of the governance of the
Foundation.
Has the Steering Committee considered creating a similar scheme to permit
association without complicating the official governance?
Not yet, because the membership and the process itself is quiet young.
But reading the reactions I get yesterday and tonight to the rejected
applications, I was indeed thinking that some people will get frustrated
to have no way to be recognized as supporters, and we will miss them in
our organization for sure.
So we may think to the kind of category you're speaking about, gathering
in all those who are advocating, giving ideas, small support, ect. I
don't know yet how to give them feedback however.
Kind regards
Sophie
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