RE: [chairs] Re: observers vs prospective members

["Philpott, Robert" <rphilpott@rsasecurity.com>]

Can we please make sure the secretary is also notified - Otherwise we end up
fwd'ing email quite a bit.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:lauren@textuality.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:31 PM
> To: Karl Best; 'chairs@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: Re: [chairs] Re: observers vs prospective members
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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