Post Oopsla Tampa Event Group One
Results of Working Group 1 of PostOopslaTampaEvent.

Suggestions to Hillside (US) for membership rules and their implementation

1. Board appoints membership chair, who maintains member list

  • Different organizations must have different membership chairs
  • Membership chairs should share data
  • Membership chair submits membership list to board

2. Clearly define rules for being an active/voting member in a given year

  • Future members need to ask to join

  • For the last two years, must have contributed to the community

    • Shepherded a paper
    • Took on administrative job
    • Played a role at an PLoP event
    • Is/was member of the board
    • Is honorary member
    • Declares intent to do a job

    • Honorary membership

      • Given for life by board
      • Can be withdrawn by board
      • Get senior pass, reduced fee at PLoP

    • Not a sufficient criterion

      • Wrote a pattern paper
      • Wrote a research paper on patterns

      • Open question: is having written a good patterns book a sufficient criterion
      • Open question: use stamp of approval for what papers/books to accept

3. Passive/non-voting membership

  • Managed by membership chair, same procedures, but no complicated criteria

  • Benefits of being a non-voting member

    • Gets information through mailing list
    • Better access to board/voting members

4. How/when to leave Hillside

  • Actively requests to step out
  • Does not reapply implies state of change from active to passive
  • Member violates statutes of Hillside

5. Advertise these changes to inform possible members

6. Put voting membership rules on the web (but not statutes, which only members get)

(Notes of DirkRiehle)

 
Last edited March 13, 2002
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