Re: [chairs] Re: observers vs prospective members

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Karl Best <karl.best@oasis-open.org> was heard to say:
| 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.

It isn't going to automatically make them members after 60 days is it?
That'd be disaster, there are a whole raft of lurkers on the DocBook
TC list that afaik have no intention of joining the TC as members.

And I'm lurking on a couple of TCs that way myself.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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