[chairs] Re: observers vs prospective members

[Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Lauren:

I'll look into this. When we designed this functionality we tried to 
keep it as simple as possible so we re-used the observer role that we 
already had. I'll see if it will be possible to do a query for 
propsective members.

Yes, the observer role is meant to cover the eligible lurkers.


-Karl





Lauren Wood wrote:
> I know the observer category is meant to cover prospective members, 
> and that the prospective members will be moved automatically, but I 
> would still like to have some way to see the list of members and 
> prospective members separately to other observers. The reason for 
> this is that observers are probably less likely to want to 
> participate in phone calls, and in general are likely to be less 
> active, so it would be handy to separate them out from the list. This 
> would also help where the TC does not allow non-TC members to post to 
> the general list (section 1.i of the process), but does allow 
> prospective members to post. I'm not sure if this case exists 
> anywhere, but it seems a reasonable possibility to me.
> 
> I'm assuming here that the observer category is where those Eligible 
> Persons who aren't members but are subscribed to the TC mailing list 
> fit. The term isn't defined in the process document.
> 
> Lauren
> 


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