[OT] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

Robert,

Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 à 15:49 -0600, Robert Derman a écrit :
> Florian Effenberger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48:
> > > Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity.
> > > Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we
> > > don't want LibCon to happen.
> >
> > by that, we would exclude a large amount of developers, and I am sure 
> > want to have them on the list. While it might be indeed something to 
> > attract more people applying for membership, I think excluding them 
> > from all votings (rather than only elections, which is what membership 
> > is about), does not feel right - but I am happy to hear some more 
> > thoughts, since we seem to have mixed feelings here. ;)
> >
> > Florian
> Perhaps we should have 2 tiered membership, full members, developers who 
> contribute on a regular and ongoing basis and such, and associate 
> members, those who have been on the mail lists since the founding of 
> TDF, and who contribute in less provable ways, like promoting the 
> program, giving others the program on disk etc.  I have been on the 
> discuss list with OOo since about the turn of the century, and actually 
> would like to contribute to the program in limited ways, like sending 
> word lists for the spelling dictionary, and enhancing the autocorrect 
> function if any developer is willing to help me to do it.  I haven't 
> done any programming since working with BASIC back in the 1980s, so I 
> can't contribute much to the code, but I would like to do whatever I can.


Slightly off topic but a quick comment: TDF members are not just
developers; if you read bylaws we do ackowledge other, technical *or*
non-technical contributions.

Best,

-- 
Charles-H. Schulz
Co-Founder & Director,
The Document Foundation.


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