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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.

I agree. Thanks for clarifying.

Jim
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