On Jul 31, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > So what can LOPSA do to grow its membership? You can do this by: > > - having people join as part of some other thing (e.g. via conferences) > - having people required to join as part of employeement
Both of these should be considered anathema. We don't want "captured" members who have no choice but to join us because they participated in some other "thing". We're not the Teamsters. People should be joining LOPSA because of the value it provides to them, either semi-tangible (access to direct benefits, such as the mailing list or IRC channels), or completely intangible (it does good works to make the industry better, which they perceive benefit in, etc.) > - Work with HR departments to have them require an Ethics certification > (which would require a LOPSA membership) for system admins. The idea > is that since system admins have access to all kinds of critical > data, companies would like some sort of assurance that they > understand ethics. What what an "ethics certification" look like? You obviously can't certify that "Derek is ethical" (because, well, you've got no frame of reference from which to make that determination), and anything else is a certification that "Derek can memorize a one page document and answer some questions based on it". > - Create unique content that is not available elsewhere I think we have a lot of unique content every day - the IRC channels, the mailing lists, etc., - all of which should be locked down to members-only. D
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