Re: Re-igniting the Membership Committee

Keen.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Sae Ra Germaine <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm keen!
>
> Thanks
>
> Sae Ra
>
> On 15 February 2016 at 13:18, Kathy Reid <kathy-T0dd/[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Agree with all of the below from Hugh.
>> I haven't had anyone actually say "Yes, I'd like to be on the Membership
>> Committee" as yet. Do we have any takers?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Kathy
>>
>>
>> On 11/02/16 23:00, Hugh Blemings wrote:
>>>
>>> Hiya,
>>>
>>> Have been following this thread with some interest and I guess my take is
>>> something along the lines of "A bit of Column A, Bit of Column B, Bit of
>>> Column C..." :)
>>>
>>> To elaborate on what I think are the key points as I'd see them - and I
>>> seek to do so as a member of the community in this case, not speaking for
>>> the Council or President though I'm sure they all have views too :)
>>>
>>> So;
>>>
>>> * The tooling we use to manage our membership is important - it should
>>> meet the various technical and non technical requirements.
>>>
>>> * Tools should also be philosophically aligned with LA
>>>
>>> * Tools should be maintainable, ideally without relying on any one person
>>> or organisation
>>>
>>> * The membership and voting tools are important for us as an
>>> organisation, but not ultimately our core business.  I'd be reluctant then
>>> to burn too many cycles of our wonderful but busy volunteers on choosing and
>>> maintaining them.
>>>
>>> * The most open question on my mind is actually how many members we have
>>> - a way to non-intrusively reach out to the 3000+ people in the DB and
>>> ascertain their disposition towards their membership is I think a priority
>>> and a relatively urgent one at that.
>>>
>>> * We probably need a list of requirements somewhere in all this. This
>>> probably comes from the Council ultimately, but should be drawn from the
>>> wisdom of the broader membership
>>>
>>> * I'm not sure a bid process is necessary - my gut feeling is that I'd
>>> like a committee or group to form with a wide enough range of views and
>>> maturity to work out among themselves what the best technical solution is
>>> and recommend this :)
>>>
>>> There's probably other things, but that's a bit of a braindump for now.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hugh
>>>
>>>
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