[advocacy-discuss] Creating a formal procedure to assign contributor status to the advocacy CG.

[Stephen Lau]

Brian Gupta wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Currently the advocacy CG, has a large number of participants, but 
> very few designated contributors, and core contributors. I think it's 
> time we resolved this, and came up with a formal procedure for 
> assigning people contributor status.
>
Does that include Core Contributor status as well?
> I feel this is important, as the 2008 OGB elections are upcoming, and 
> only designated contributors and core contributors are eligible to vote.
>
I believe only Core Contributors can vote in the OGB elections.
> One possible place to start. Should we automatically assign 
> contributor status to active user group leaders?
Contributor status, maybe.  Core Contributor, definitely not.  Even if 
you are the best and most active user group leader in your user group - 
it may have no bearing whatsoever on your role and activity in the 
OpenSolaris community at large.  The 2007 OGB elections were almost 
invalid because we weren't able to get high enough voter turnout because 
all the user group leaders were granted contributor grants that gave 
them a vote.
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> P.S. - Where is the existing list of advocacy Core contributors and 
> contributors?
At http://poll.opensolaris.org (in the Grants tab), which tracks the 
contributor grants for every community.

cheers,
steve

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