[ogb-discuss] ARC community membership additions - Mark Carlson, Alan Coopersmith, Danek Duvall, Terrence Miller and Brian Cameron

[Glynn Foster]

Hey John,

John Plocher wrote:
> The ARC Community has voted to extend Core Contributer status
> to the following people:
> 
> 	mac	Mark Carlson		Storage CG
> 	alanc	Alan Coopersmith	OGB and X CGs
> 	dduvall	Danek Duvall		ON and Tools CGs
> 	tcm	Terrence Miller		ARC CG
> 
> It has also voted to extend Contributer status to
> 
> 	yippi	Brian Cameron		Desktop CG

These have been now processed - sorry for the delay!

> In addition, the following Core contributers are re-acknowledged
> for their continued active participation (and thus should have their
> Core Contributer grants extended):
> 
> 	sommerfe	Bill Sommerfeld	
> 	gww		Gary W. Winiger
> 	glenn		Glenn C. Skinner
> 	carlsonj	James D. Carlson
> 	jek3		Joseph E. Kowalski
> 	kais		Kais Belgaied
> 	tpm		Tim Marsland
> 	plocher		John Plocher
> 
> Only one Core Contribuer is not being "renewed", because he
> has since retired and (AFAIK) is sailing with his wife somewhere
> down along the West Coast of the Americas.  I think he got the
> better deal :-)
> 
> 	edgould		Ed Gould

At the moment we haven't really figured out how the renewal process goes in 
terms of the grant. Currently the database just records the core/contributor 
grant, with a date of when it was added, and associates membership with core 
contributor status. Membership is for a 2 year period, so technically they're 
still members.

Most likely the way forward would be to set up a cron job to check the database 
for core contributors who's grant date > 2 years old, remove their core 
contributor grant, and email them, along with the current community group 
facilitator.

I still don't like the core contributor <-> membership relationship though, but 
changing that is likely to mean changes to the database which I'm loathe to even 
attempt by myself.


Glynn