[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[shaila mistry]

Hi Jeremy
I am receiving a message that my user name is not recognized, when I have just 
registered it. I also tried with my email address and pasted the long password 
sent to me.
Can you please assist me.
Regards
Shaila 

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From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Sent: Sun, January 2, 2011 3:01:01 AM
Subject: [governance] New membership database: choose your own username


This is long, but important, so please read it.
Before the next poll or election is called, anyone who wishes to participate 
will have to have an account in the new database that I have created to record 
IGC membership.  All those who voted in the last election will also be entered 
into this database.

We are doing this because, until now, there has been no proper IGC membership 
list, other than the list of subscribers to the governance mailing list (which 
contains many non-member lurkers, duplicate subscriptions and some defunct 
accounts).

The advantages of a maintaining a centralised database is that we can use a 
single list of members (and potential members) for purposes including:

	* mailing list subscription
	* editing content on the IGC Web site
	* determining eligibility to vote for coordination elections and charter 
amendments

Also, we will finally be able to associate names and (optionally) organisations 
with email addresses.  Our inability to do this in the past has been a problem 
for the coordinators.

I will be entering existing members into this database shortly, but I am first 
giving everyone the opportunity to create their own database entry so that they 
can choose their own username.  If you don't choose your own username, you will 
end up with a username like "john.doe".  The username won't be used on the 
mailing list, but will be associated with any content you may create on our Web 
site, and possibly for other purposes in the future.  

To create your own entry in the IGC membership database please visit this new 
page of our Web site:

http://www.igcaucus.org/user/register

When registering, please use the same email address with which you are 
subscribed to the governance list.  This is important because it will enable me 
to flag you as an official IGC member (ie. one who voted in the last coordinator 
elections), if indeed you are one.  (If not, please register anyway - especially 
if you intend to vote at the next coordinator elections.)

Visiting the page above is also the way, from now on, to subscribe to or 
unsubscribe from the governance mailing list.  (Unfortunately due to software 
limitations, your password for the mailing list Web site won't be automatically 
set to the one you choose when creating your database entry - you'll need to set 
it again when logging in there, or use any password you may have had there 
before.)

Existing subscribers to the governance mailing list who have not voted in the 
list election will not automatically be added to the database.  So, if you did 
not vote but are nonetheless an active participant, you should register yourself 
using the link above.  If you don't, your mailing list subscription won't be 
touched, but you won't have access to participate in polls or to add content to 
our Web site.

Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions.  You have one month 
from now to create your own database entry if you wish, before I will create 
entries for all the missing members.

PS. Since this email is long enough already, I'll be writing separately about 
some of the other "phase 2" improvements to our Web site.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Project Coordinator
Consumers International
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