[Foundation] Membership Purge

[Ivan R. Judson]

Will this purge significantly alter the overall numbers?

I'm just curious :-)

--Ivan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-admin at jabber.org 
> [mailto:members-admin at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:29 AM
> To: members at jabber.org
> Subject: [Foundation] Membership Purge
> 
> 
> As previously noted on this list, a large number of JSF 
> members have never participated when we have put official 
> decisions to a vote of the members. There have been 3 such 
> official decisions so far, which for purposes of 
> participation we have always said would be counted as 
> meetings per Section 2.6 of the Jabber Software Foundation 
> Bylaws (this will change if the amendment to Section 2.1 
> passes at the annual meeting, since we will hold meetings at 
> least quarterly to admit new members). Therefore we will, as 
> warned, be purging founding members (i.e., members since the 
> inception of the JSF) who have consecutively missed all three 
> of the official votes held so far:
> 
> 2002-02 -- acceptance of new members
> 2002-07 -- setting number of Board members at 5
> 2002-08 -- approval of voting items (bylaw changes) for annual meeting
> 
> Members who were accepted earlier this year have had the 
> opportunity to participate in only 2 votes so far, so none of 
> them will be purged at this time. However, if those members 
> did not participate in the second two votes above and do not 
> participate in the annual meeting next Wednesday by proxy 
> voting (via memberbot) or by voting during the conference 
> call, they too will be purged.
> 
> All of these individuals are of course welcome to apply again 
> for JSF membership in the future when we have open acceptance 
> of applications. If the proposed amendment to Section 2.1 of 
> the Bylaws is approved at the annual meeting, that 
> opportunity could come as early as October 1 of this year.
> 
> The list of individuals who will be purged immediately is as follows:
> 
> ******
> 
> Jens Alfke
> James Barry
> David Barth
> Fiore Basile
> Joshua Bauguss
> Phil Benson
> Nitin Borwankar
> Marc Bourgeois
> Richard Braman
> Griffin Caruolo
> Thomas Cherryhomes
> Sumit Chowdhury
> Scott Cote
> Rahul Dave
> Andre Durand
> JR Ebel
> Michael Emswiler
> Jack Erwin
> Bill Farrell
> Barry Flanagan
> Randy Guck
> Niklas Gustavsson
> Schuyler Heath
> Lawrence Hsu
> Jorge Eduardo Ibarra
> Matthew Johnston
> Oliver Jones
> Kevin Kadow
> Susan Kirkpatrick
> Rob Kooper
> Nicholas Lafferty
> Patrick Lai
> Yermo Lamers
> Jean-Francois Lavoie
> Brandon Lees
> Rex Liubo
> Lizhi Loxu
> Stephane Lunati
> Colin Madere
> Celso Martinho
> Micah McCrary
> Deech Mestel
> Max Metral
> Satish Mohan
> Tomas Mrkvicka
> Sateesh Narahari
> Gorer Ozen
> Dave Parkes
> Matt Payne
> Terry Perkinson
> Chuck Peters
> Gregory Pfeil
> Dan Powers
> C. Reece Rakowksi
> Ted Rolle
> Marco Romeny
> Ian Rose
> Steve Santacroce
> Randall Severy
> Sharon Shay
> Aviv Siegel
> Terry Smelser
> Ryszard Sommefeldt
> Al Sutton
> William Tan
> Michiel van Oudeheusden
> Justin Van Patten
> Subrahmanyan Venkata
> Chris Weiss
> Gregory Wong
> John Wright
> Mark Zamoyta
> 
> ******
> 
> I shall remove these individuals from this mailing list and 
> the official list of JSF members later this morning. If you 
> feel that you have been included on the purge list in error, 
> please contact me at your earliest convenience.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Peter
> 
> --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.html
> 
> 
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