XSF Discussion - 2018-04-25

I've responded to this.

nyco, Ge0rG, MattJ: transferred

neaaat

ralphm: thanks very much!

interesting, the openstack foundation has a rule that membership ceases if you don’t vote during the board of directors election.

https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/bylaws

2.6

do we enforce this, do we want to enforce this?

I am not sure if we've needed too, but I don't see why not.

does anyone *check*? ✏

I assume Alex does, yes

ok

Ok 10:12 i need to be on a train need to move my ass brb

(and wrong room)

but it's a "MAY", so it's legal to keep the bodies

In practice, I'd say that the inactive ones fail to reapply for membership and vanish though that door

I’d like to have data on that :)

jonasw: I do, but does not make a lot of sense IMHO. When we review the bylaws one day I would ask to remove this

Ge0rG: exactly

I think it does make sense when it is quite literally the one and only responsibility you have as a member. If you can't be bothered to vote three times in a row...

intosi: absolutely, and it might sense to enforce that rule

I use showing-up-for-the-voting history of members when deciding on how to cast my votes as well.

Not as the only factor, obviously ;)

the members who do not vote are usually the members who do not reapply. I have not really seen exceptions to this in the last years. we just kick them a quarter before they leave anyway