[Members] Why I did not reapply ...

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Ralph Meijer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:55:15PM +0000, Kevin Smith wrote:
>>>> Even stronger, I motion that we reopen the application period to  
>>>> allow
>>>> Matthias and others to apply. 

I have no problem with that. I've always been pretty laissez-faire about 
application periods. :-)

> If the wiki is still unusable, the
>>>> procedure should be that one send the application to Ulrich by  
>>>> Jabber or
>>>> e-mail and let Ulrich put it up somewhere when voting begins.
>> Am I misreading this? The way I read it the problem was that Matthias  
>> never contacted Ulrich; if that's true, giving Ulrich the application  
>> is just as much a barrier as asking him for a wiki pass?
> 
> While this maybe partially true, the application requested to 'ping'
> Ulrich on Jabber, requiring both parties to be in real time
> conversation.

Offline messaging? :-)

> Then you get an account, 

Any Sysop can create an account:

http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Sysops

I've moved the note about that to the top of the wiki:

http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Main_Page

Peter

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