hmm can we use a better word than class, you know class carries alot of baggage.
the main changes from MadFarmAnimalz suggestions are an automated process for promoting to senior user.
And a concorde voting system for choosing people.
And a very complicated method for choosing administrators, my worry is that administrators have ultimate powers they should be able to trust each other and work together with no tension at all and with minimal disagreements.
Administrators should also trust each others technical abilities and each others embrace of agreed procedures.
which is why I suggest current administrator team must approve candidates.
Since quorum is caclulated in terms of Senior Users and since basic resources don't start oppening up until you're senior user this practicaly means that the community is composed of senior users and above. We cannot have an open and democratic community if entery into the community is tied to acceptance of a certain class of members, this renders the right for gratis membership and member equiality void.
Seniority is just a measure of commitment and activity afterall.
I'm not sure if it should be completly automated though, I think moderators should have the right to bypass the system in order to promote some members (but not the opposite). essentialy to empower those who can contribute alot.
the numbers I chose for the scoring system are arbitirary please consider them as just place holders.
I chose a concorde voting method when selecting people for several reasons.
This document details the process of selecting Administrators, Moderators and Senior Users.
It also covers the procedure for dealing with members who violate their mandates or abuse their positions.
Senior members shall be choosen from among new members in an auotmated fashion.
A score will be kept to measure each members activity in the LUG, any member who reaches a score of 100 points will be automaticaly promoted to senior member.
Only contributions in the in topic areas of the eglug.org website and activities will be scored, moderated/unpublished contributions will not be counted at all.
Moderators are chosen from the pool of senior users.
The Number of moderators shall be 20% the number of senior users and the procedure to choose moderators shall be as follows
A moderator may resign at any point from her duties.
Administrators are chosen from the pool of moderators. An administrator is nothing more than a moderator with additional strictly technical responsibilities which means that technical competence is a prerequisite.
Due to technical details administrators have to function as once entity, there is no place for disagreement at all between administrators.
Number of Administrators shall be 4 or 20% the number of moderators (whichever is larger).
Once a year after reviewing the charter the number of Administrators needed is calculated and new administrators are chosen according to the following procedure:
An administrator may resign at any point, but must stick around until a replacement is voted upon.
In case of administrators or moderators violating their mandate the community may vote on demoting the them.
Violation of mandate represent a breech of social contract, the member is demoted to new user with 0 score.
Only administrators can propose membership revocation.
Membership may only be revoked if a member:
Since both these criteria are subjective, membership revocation must be approved by the community through 27 votes:
Where a user has his/her membership revoked, and where all 27 votes are senior or new user ballots it can be understood that there is a significant disconnect between the administrators/moderators and the community at large.