Talk:U.s.oo.o/User Community Roles

Volunteer membership

The Member's request must be supported by two or more Volunteers, who have validated the Members application and are willing to endorse this membership.

Why?

The application must be endorsed by a UCV Vote(3). The quorum for the vote is one third of the UCV, and a two-thirds majority must be obtained of votes cast.

For what purpose?

Who are we trying to keep out? -- 12:59, 9 September 2007 User:DrewJensen

Drew I've moved my answer to the 8daw topic since most of the participants in this debate don't seem to want to use the Wiki for this. However, my reasoning in short is that we are expecting the volunteers to agree to certain responsibilities and such an expectation is worthless in my opinion unless we have some confidence in their provenance and commitment / staying power. We want Volunteers to be active. As I suggested on the topic, maybe the easiest way to do this is to have a forum called requests for Volunteer status where the applicant just posts his/her application which will include a yes/no poll, and that anyone is free to comment as well as vote. That would do the same thing, but it could also then become a publicly humiliating trial.

In terms of the quorum: what do we do if someone applies for Volunteer status and we have 2 yes votes and 1 no vote? I am not sure how to specify this, but I do feel we need a minimum threshold of votes. I am not wedded to 2/3 majority, but I do tend to precautionary principle. Not quite to the gentleman's club level of one black-ball and you're out, but would you feel confident in a appointing a member as a volunteer, if the vote was 52 for and 49 against? Clearly where we have a simple case of three applicants applying for a forum administrator role for example then a simple majority is sufficient.

Also in the case of "trusted" rolls such as administrator, I would very much like to limit the vote to Volunteers. -- TerryE 05:09, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

proposed change to Process of becoming a volunteer

User requests membership change to Volunteer:

User request is posted to a board maintained for this purpose.

• Any UCV member may designate approval.
• Any UCV member may designate protest.

1. Upon two approvals, and no protest the membership is granted.
2. After 2 weeks,if no member has approved and no member has protested, the membership is automatically approved.

If a member makes a protest. Then a vote of the UCV membership would be needed. But only in this single case. 1/3 quorum as proposed.

I could live with this idea of a minimum. Good idea, but suggest some tweaks -- I don't like the timeout = "pass".

After 2 weeks:

1. if a minimum of two approvals have been made, and no protest then Volunteer status is granted.
2. if less than two approvals have been made then the Volunteer status is declined.
3. if a minimum of two approvals have been made, and any protest registered then a vote of the UCV membership is needed under the standard UCV voting procedure.

Where the candidate is declined, reapplication can be made after <3> months.

TerryE 05:11, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

Content Manager

Drew 22:54, 9 September 2007 (CEST)When I first read content manager what came to my mind was the situation with the person looking at publishing an OO.o magazine. I suppose he would be a content manager. Site Administrators would support him, similar to support for the service administrators. He would in turn follow some procedure for placing his content on the site. That may be emailing it to a site admin. on the first go round, or maybe placing in the CM system, at some point some automation, using a existing tool or perhaps a customized mag_admin screen just for this purpose.

I could also see this person being the moderator of a dedicated forum. Looking at the templates based mods available, for instance the one used to generate the home page at OOoForum. It is easy to see a way to support a magazine, having the lower 'blog' like list of recent posts limited to the dedicated forum.

Ombudsman

TerryE 03:39, 10 September 2007 (CEST)This is the one role that we should consider being elected by the Members rather than the Volunteers as this is a dual role which both polices the UCV and guards interests of the general membership.

Drew 17:22, 10 September 2007 (CEST) I much like the idea that the ombudsman position is voted on by the site membership as a whole. I would not limit this in any way, what I would propose is that one week prior to the vote for this position a PM be generated to every member account with any posting activity in the last 12 months. An announcement be presented on the Site and forum main pages for the week leading up to the vote, and announcing its beginning and end. Further that the PM sent 1 week prior to the commencement of the vote, solicit any volunteers that want to stand for the office. The final decision being

• one person 75% or greater of cast votes - member become the sole ombudsman
• two persons combined have 75% or greater of the cast votes - they both become ombudsman
• any other vote split requires a new vote