[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 04/01/2011, at 11:52 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:

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

Along with everyone else who posts to the list, you are as good as a member for most purposes.  The only things that you can't do are:

(a) Vote in the next coordinator election until you self-affirm membership at that time.
(b) Vote on any charter amendments between now and then, if you didn't vote in the last coordinator elections.

But you can still contribute to discussions and consensus-building on the list.

A difficult question that comes up in transitioning to a membership database is, do we have two entries in the database for those who are subscribed to the mailing list twice?  I would answer no; although your multiple subscriptions remain intact, you should only fill in the membership form once.

But since the mailing list subscription form is now the same as the membership database form, this presents a problem for new members who wish to subscribe under multiple addresses: to them, I would just ask that they contact me for help (I'll add a note to this effect to the Web site).

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