Re: [chairs] Re: observers vs prospective members

[Lauren Wood <lauren@textuality.com>]

This works for me.

thanks,

Lauren

On 13 Feb 2003 at 16:22, Karl Best wrote:

> Lauren:
> 
> Looks like we're in good shape. I just heard back from the developers, 
> and Prospective Member will be a separate role, so you can do a query to 
> see just them, and the query would also reveal their signup date.
> 
> Also, I originally thought that this would automatically convert the 
> prospective member to full member, but instead the chair will be 
> notified when the person has fulfilled the probation requirements. The 
> chair will then have to manually change the person's role. I think this 
> is probably better as nothing changes without the chair knowing about 
> it; this gives the chair just a bit more control.
> 
> -Karl
> 
> 
> 
> Karl Best wrote:
> > 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