[Linux-aus] Re-igniting the Membership Committee

[Joel Addison]

I’m also interested in this :)

> On 15 Feb 2016, at 8:21 PM, Luke John <email at lukejohn.me> wrote:
> 
> Keen.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Sae Ra Germaine <s.germaine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm keen!
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Sae Ra
>> 
>> On 15 February 2016 at 13:18, Kathy Reid <kathy at kathyreid.id.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Agree with all of the below from Hugh.
>>> I haven't had anyone actually say "Yes, I'd like to be on the Membership
>>> Committee" as yet. Do we have any takers?
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Kathy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11/02/16 23:00, Hugh Blemings wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hiya,
>>>> 
>>>> Have been following this thread with some interest and I guess my take is
>>>> something along the lines of "A bit of Column A, Bit of Column B, Bit of
>>>> Column C..." :)
>>>> 
>>>> To elaborate on what I think are the key points as I'd see them - and I
>>>> seek to do so as a member of the community in this case, not speaking for
>>>> the Council or President though I'm sure they all have views too :)
>>>> 
>>>> So;
>>>> 
>>>> * The tooling we use to manage our membership is important - it should
>>>> meet the various technical and non technical requirements.
>>>> 
>>>> * Tools should also be philosophically aligned with LA
>>>> 
>>>> * Tools should be maintainable, ideally without relying on any one person
>>>> or organisation
>>>> 
>>>> * The membership and voting tools are important for us as an
>>>> organisation, but not ultimately our core business.  I'd be reluctant then
>>>> to burn too many cycles of our wonderful but busy volunteers on choosing and
>>>> maintaining them.
>>>> 
>>>> * The most open question on my mind is actually how many members we have
>>>> - a way to non-intrusively reach out to the 3000+ people in the DB and
>>>> ascertain their disposition towards their membership is I think a priority
>>>> and a relatively urgent one at that.
>>>> 
>>>> * We probably need a list of requirements somewhere in all this. This
>>>> probably comes from the Council ultimately, but should be drawn from the
>>>> wisdom of the broader membership
>>>> 
>>>> * I'm not sure a bid process is necessary - my gut feeling is that I'd
>>>> like a committee or group to form with a wide enough range of views and
>>>> maturity to work out among themselves what the best technical solution is
>>>> and recommend this :)
>>>> 
>>>> There's probably other things, but that's a bit of a braindump for now.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Hugh
>>>> 
>>>> 
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