Hi John - I agree, we should take a vote on this at this week's meeting.
Can we get someone to confirm our dialin information, though? I hope we don't have another cancelled meeting due to inability to connect :( Valerie On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, John Plocher wrote: > I propose that both Jim's proposal and "my" counter proposal be > formally discussed and voted upon at next week's OGB meeting. > > Motion: That the Board consider the two proposals re: > facilitator/secretary/auth interactions and vote on the following: > > The OpenSolaris Community Contributor/CoreContributor promotion > process shall be modified as described in > A) Jim's proposal [potentially as modified during the discussion...] > B) John's proposal [potentially as modified during the discussion...] > C) Neither (i.e., keep the current status quo) > > Furthermore, the Auth web app and associated infrastructure being > developed shall support whichever process is decided upon here. > > I'll let Jim reiterate his proposal for the record, and I will send > out mine under separate cover. > > -John > > > For the record, this is what the constitution says about this topic > (I added this to > http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_Electorate_Membership_Process > as well): > > 4.2. Admission of Members. > > The initial set of Members ... Thereafter, persons shall be > admitted as Members of the OpenSolaris Community upon accepting the > designation of Core Contributor for one or more OpenSolaris Groups and > receipt by the Secretary of their willingness to accept the status of > Member. > > and > 7.7. Contributors. > > The Contributors of a Community Group shall include every person > who has been designated by the Core Contributors of that Group to have > contributed substantively to that Group's efforts, including (but not > limited to) every person who has contributed intellectual property to > the OpenSolaris Community as a result of those efforts. > > and > 7.8. Core Contributors. > > The initial ... thereafter, the Core Contributors shall consist of > those Participants that have accepted the Group's designation as a > Core Contributor for that Group. Designation as a Core Contributor > requires nomination of a Participant by an existing Core Contributor, > followed by a Group decision by consensus vote to approve that > designation, and finally acceptance of the designation by the > Participant. > > The process currently in use that implements these constitutional > requirements is (to the best of my knowledge): > > 1) Core Contributors in a Community Group > > A new (core) contributor in a collective is identified. The > community's voting process starts when an existing core contributor in > the community identifies a potential new [C/CC] for that community and > suggests a vote be taken. The community votes on the nomination using > whatever voting mechanism is appropriate. Assuming that the vote is > positive... > > 2) The facilitator in that collective > > Sends email to ogb-discuss to alert the OGB that a successful vote > for new C/CCs has occurred. > > 3) The OGB Secretary > > Checks that a valid vote has taken place in the community and > makes sure that any new CCs have shown their willingness to accept the > status of Member (aka OGB 2009/007). The Secretary puts the new names > into poll/Auth. > > 4) Automatic > > The Auth application and the official poll database show this > person as a new C/CC. > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
