[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Am I a lurker even though I subscribed to the list, please advise?

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

>   On 02/01/2011, at 9:12 PM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>
>   "Official IGC members" are those who subscribe to the list, NOT those
> "who voted in the last coordinator elections". The definition in Jeremy's
> message seems to me to be a fundamental change in the intention of the
> charter.
>
>
> There are so many different levels of membership in the charter that it is
> indeed confusing:
>
> * Those who self-identified as members and voted in the last coordinator
> elections, who are the only members entitled to vote on charter amendments.
>  These are whom I was referring to above, though maybe "full" would have
> been a better choice of words than "official".
>
>  * Those who self-identified as members prior to the last coordinator
> election, who are (perhaps?) also still members, but can't vote on charter
> amendments.  The charter is ambiguous about whether you have to renew your
> self-identification every year.  In favour of this view, a member may have
> moved into government service  since their previous self-identification.
>  Against, even if you do work for government, you may feel that you can
> still self-identify as an IGC member in your personal capacity.
>
>     * Those who participate in the mailing list, but have never
> self-identified as members (whom I called "lurkers"). So, I disagree with
> your point that there is no such thing as a non-member lurker.
>
> But, I agree that it would be better to completely review the charter, if
> only we had a willing group of members to undertake this task.
>
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