(MEMB) Prospective Members

[Tom Wall]

Hey everyone - I figured that I'd compile a short list of all of the 
people who have been mentioned as prospective members on the FP team. 

Several of them have been left hanging for a while now, and so I'm 
sending this out as a "Special Notice." This way, we can all take a 
look at the list and give it some thought.

As a note, I do think that we should make a concerted effort to make 
a decision on these people as soon as possible, so that we can get an 
answer to them at some point in the near future. If we don't get back 
to them (particularly since some have applied) then I think we run 
the risk of being, well, rude. 

I suggested recently that we set a limit of one week to consider this 
issue, to be followed up with answers to those who have applied. Is 
this a problem for anyone?

Anyways, here's the list (as compiled over the last few days):

- Grey Wolf

- Steve (bboy_mn)

- Juan Rodriguez (mentioned twice as being interested in helping with
tech stuff)

- boyd.t.smythe (boyd_smythe) goes by the name "Remnant." Requested 
membership previously and was turned down.

- Carolyn White. She proposed an idea for archiving our collective 
works to MEG, and it was posted here in message 2284 (if you want to 
review it).

- Michelle (Michelle Apostolides aka pinguthegreek, a member of MEG) 
has been on the table for a while.

- Kelley Thompson sent an e-mail requesting membership in this group. 
In message 2298 Ali nominated Kelley (and reposted the request).

- Pippin's elfling. (message 2008) Do you remember who that is, 
Pippin?

- Phyllis' nominee (can't find a message for that.)


Now, I don't know exactly how things have been done before (history 
lessons are welcome); I was sent an invite to join, although I never 
personally applied. 

So, this is how I see it. Some of the candidates have applied 
previously and have been rejected. Some have open applications that 
are pending. And some (as far as I know) have been nominated 
internally by other members... I don't know if they know about it or 
not.

I suggest that we get to the people who have applied first: 
boyd_smythe (Remnant) applied and was turned down, but I don't know 
why the group came to that decision at the time. Can anyone explain 
this? Should we see if he's still interested and/or reconsider him?

Carolyn White and Kelley have sent applications in recently, and 
Michelle's been pending for a while. So we should get to all of them 
first. How does this work? Do we need a majority vote, or just a 
simple consensus, i.e. if there are no strenuous objections, should 
we just tacitly accept the person?

Whatever the case, I think the least pressing item on the agenda are 
the people who have simply been nominated internally, like Grey Wolf, 
Juan Rodriguez, Bboy_mn, and the two anonymous candidates. 

Oh, and if we're missing anyone, now's probably a good time to throw 
in a nominee or two.

Of course, that's all just MHO. ;-)

-Tom