<div dir="ltr">I'm keen!<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Sae Ra</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 February 2016 at 13:18, Kathy Reid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathy@kathyreid.id.au" target="_blank">kathy@kathyreid.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Agree with all of the below from Hugh.<br>
I haven't had anyone actually say "Yes, I'd like to be on the Membership Committee" as yet. Do we have any takers?<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Kathy<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 11/02/16 23:00, Hugh Blemings wrote:<br>
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Hiya,<br>
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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..." :)<br>
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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 :)<br>
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So;<br>
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* The tooling we use to manage our membership is important - it should meet the various technical and non technical requirements.<br>
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* Tools should also be philosophically aligned with LA<br>
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* Tools should be maintainable, ideally without relying on any one person or organisation<br>
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* 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.<br>
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* 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.<br>
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* 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<br>
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* 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 :)<br>
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There's probably other things, but that's a bit of a braindump for now.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Hugh<br>
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