Re: quick look at membership, and proposed clause for this group's charter

How many "members" are the now?

What constitutes a member and how does the status relate to non-members?

Best,
Marco

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Lars
> we are all lurkers in some lists, and more active in others
>
> that is inevitable as we try to follow even just notionally what is going on
> everywhere else with limited human and computer level bandwidth
>
> as you know, establishing a good balance so that people do not feel too much
> pressure
> and yet find ways of participating is a challenge for most communities,
>
> so far nobody has protested about these clauses, so we are going ahead with
> two rules
> 1. every member should take the stakeholoder questionnaire
> (feel free to help improve it)
> 2. every member should make at least one contribution per semester
> of whatever weight/importance they see fit (as long as we hear from them)
> and
> ping the list about it, so that we can harvest these activities for our
> reports
>
> have not yet found out how to make these rules effective as a charter
> on the group's page, anyone has any suggestions?
>
> we have not yet discussed/decided what we do with defection,
> but we can think about it later
>
> I take this opportunity to welcome new members who have joined
> since last week and remind everyone that the questionnaire needs to be
> ticked to maintain good standing
>
>  original post 'Vision, Mission and Charter '
> http://www.w3.org/community/swisig/2014/02/04/vision-missionn-charter/
>
> notes in our preliminary report (currently being drafted)
> http://tinyurl.com/qbv5pfj
>
> Please help to shape the vision and mission for the group by taking a very
> quick
>  questionnaire.(less than 10 questions).  This will help us with stakeholder
> profiling
> http://tinyurl.com/npurmtg
>
> This is only or internal use - Anonymized answers will be shared [...]
>
> PDM
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Svensson, Lars <L.Svensson@dnb.de> wrote:
>>
>> Paola, all,
>>
>> > 2. members must commit to a minimum level of contribution to the group's
>> > work
>> >  (this can be leading pr contributing to a discussion, participate in
>> > some
>> > activity from the group's schedule, , writing a blog post or anything
>> > else
>> > they consider relevant), to discourage long term silent lurkers
>> >
>> > Please let us know if anyone has strong objections to the clause or
>> > other
>> > suggestions
>> > to increase members activities and participation
>>
>> I violently agree with the clause. Being a lurker myself, I know that
>> those kinds of clauses are sometimes necessary to get yourself going.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Lars
>>
>



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