[Foundation] Membership Purge

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Yes, because we have just purged 72 members. I'll give you a membership
total here soon, working on updating the members list even as we speak.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.html

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

> 
> 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
> > 
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