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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> I think last years process, where the community "leaders" just made lists
>> for their communities, and many of them didn't understand why or what was
>> involved, was part of what led to the voter turnout issues.
> 
> In Advocacy (which was the User Group Community back then) we had a very 
> long conversation thread on ug-discuss as well as many individual UG 
> list talking about this. I started those conversations based on Stephen 
> Hahn's initial mail requesting Contributors and Core Contributor names 
> form all the Communities. The notion that people just dumped out lists 
> is wrong. In fact, many UG leads took this exercise very seriously. But 
> was it confusing? Sure, to a certain degree. Just as it was for all the 
> CGs at the time. It's not a big deal. We are boot-strapping here.

I wasn't referring specifically to User Groups there, but to conversations
I had with some of the people who prepared the lists for other communities.

User Groups were only 1/3rd of the voters, while we had problems getting to
the 50% + 1 turnout, so clearly there were voters from a lot of other
communities that didn't show up either.

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