[advocacy-discuss] new governance policy for core contributors

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey ...

If you are already a Core Contributor you have already received this 
mail from the OGB. But I wanted to forward the thread to 
advocacy-discuss and osug-leaders to alert people who may be seeking CC 
status in the future.

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=101770&tstart=0

Basically, the new OGB policy says that if you become a CC (which means 
you'd be a Member with voting privileges) you have to state to the OGB 
that you understand what's involved with being a CC and that you will 
participate in governance -- which means voting in elections.

We don't want a large number of CCs who are not participating in 
elections because that makes it impossible to evolve our governance 
structures. Remember, the current constitution mandates an "affirmative 
vote of a majority of the Members of record" to make changes to the 
constitution. In this past election, the newly proposed constitution 
failed for just this reason. It got a big majority of votes /from those 
who voted/ but a minority of votes from the total Members of record. 
That means that too many people simply didn't vote. This new OGB policy 
will not solve the problem entirely, but it's just a reasonable attempt 
to educate people about their responsibility. I'll update the Advocacy 
pages to reflect this change and just make it a part of the process for 
creating new Advocacy CCs.

Also, in late March, about 80 or so Advocacy CCs dropped off the voting 
rolls (normal expirations), so we have about 35 or so active CCs now. 
You can see your status here (by searching for your name under the 
Grants tab): http://poll.opensolaris.org/.

Remember, under the current system being a Core Contributor makes you a 
Member of the community, and that's all about voting in elections and 
participating in governance. If you are not interested in voting, you 
should be Contributor instead.

Governance: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/

Jim

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