Re: Renewals of the memberships

[Ghee Seng Teo <ghee teo sun com>]

Hi,
    I like the idea of existing membership expires at the same time for everyone.
So we only need to send out an early reminder for them to renew.

    We have in the past rejected existing member for renewal because they
have 
been idle for a while which means the processes can not be fully automated
or
can it?
    
    My stance NOW is though if the person has been a member (however idle)
but have been 
keeping an eye on the renewal notice, they must have sufficiemt interest
in GNOME to be
renewed for their membership. So that the committee can concentrate on new
applicants 
and election and ...

-Ghee


Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Vincent Untz">
>
> > I like the idea.
> > But doing this at the end of September is not really a good thing : we
> > would have the big work juste before the elections. I'd rather make the
> > memberships end between January and June so we have enough time to renew
> > them. (Else we'll see dozens of members asking us if they'll be able to
> > vote because we wouldn't have the time to renew their memberships before
> > November 1st).
> >   
>
> If renewal is just a matter of replying to an email with a silly random
> string in it, to an address that has an automated procmail thingy to check
> the string (and save the email into an archive somewhere in case there's a
> problem), then the work is basically reduced to:
>
>   * build a file of silly strings and email addresses
>   * automated mail to all the members reminding them to renew by replying to
>     the email by a certain date
>   * tick off people as they reply, or let the script do it and check it at
>     the end
>   * remove the other members, and settle late renewals manually with
>     furrowed brows
>
> You could do this during September, and close it on the 30th, with lots of
> time left until the elections.
>
> - Jeff