[advocacy-discuss] new governance policy for core contributors

[max at bruningsystems.com]

Hi,
I am a core contributor, but I did not see the email from the OGB.

Regardless, I understand what's involved with being a CC and I shall 
participate
in governance - which means I'll vote in elections.

thanks,
max

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 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
>