I'd like to discuss the possibility of an additional class of members based on the success I've seen of using it at Noisebridge. Right now, we've got just one class of members called Members. Some time ago, they introduced a second group called Associate Members. The procedure for becoming an associate member is pretty simple:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Membership#Associate_Members Essentially, you create a User wiki page, find four sponsors (who are other associate members or regular members), then add a category tag to your page. Associate members can't participate in governance or need to pay dues, but it does give a sense of belonging and establishes a network of trust between active community participants who have not become full members and full members. We're a lot more than just a tiny handful of maybe a dozen active contributors! I think we can differ from NB's implementation by requiring that least one of the four sponsors must be a full Member. Since I'm not a fan of using the wiki to maintain any kind of membership records, I'd like to implement something like that in spiff as an implementation of the next milestone of a plugin architecture. Feedback, please! _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
