MEMB: Prospective Members

[Tom Wall]

In order to make scrubbing easier, I'm replying to the MEMB stuff 
separately from the ADMIN stuff.

Cindy wrote:
Tom suggested a week [to evaluate new members], which sounds fine by 
me. But a week from *when?* Are we certain that all FAQ members 
received Tom's message? If not, it hardly seems fair that the clock 
ought to be ticking just yet.

Tom:
That was almost a week ago. <grin>

Okay, so this is the new list again, with some revisions. I tried to 
list other members' opinions (in brief) just to smooth along the 
process. Instead of including my own opinions here, what I'll do is 
reply to this message with my own thoughts, just so that the issue 
doesn't get convoluted.


--THE ROSTER--

-Grey Wolf is a new member of MEG. He was nominated by Phyllis.

-Steve (AKA bboy_mn) was nominated by Phyllis.

-Michelle Apostolides (AKA pinguthegreek) requested membership a 
while ago. She is a member of MEG. She has been seconded by Ali, 
Sheryll, and Phyllis. Cindy objected. Ali (and Penny) suggested that 
we go back and ask her if she's still interested.

-Juan Rodriguez is a past nominee, but we can't find any information 
on him. Phyllis has seconded him.

-boyd.t.smythe (AKA Remnant) - Apparently requested membership 
previously, although we can't seem to find any record of that, or of 
his rejection. He's been seconded by Phyllis. Cindy suggests we take 
a look at him.

-Carolyn White (AKA a_reader2003) – requested membership – She has 
been seconded by Abigail and Phyllis. Carolyn proposed an idea for 
archiving our collective works to MEG, and it was posted here in 
message 2284 (if you want to review it). 

-Kelley Thompson is an ex-member of MEG. She requested membership 
recently (see message 2298). She has been seconded by Ali and 
Phyllis.


On a more general note, Cindy, Phyllis, and Dicey have voted in the 
poll to allow membership to anyone who expresses an interest. Since 
Phyllis has verbally (um, or, in writing) accepted all of the 
candidates, this would add two votes in the "YES" category to each 
one.

In response to my original post, Cindy proposed a new list of 
prospective members:

-Tyler Hewitt
-Annemehr
-RSFJenny (**especially** since she volunteered to elf but was not 
selected)
-Jen Reese
-Terry James
-Ellejir (Elle)
-Psczmeska (sp) (as a tech specialist)
-Vulgarweed
-Anyone else who volunteered on OTC to elf but was not
selected; wasn't
there one other person?

In my opinion, this second list can wait for a while, since as far 
as I can see they don't know that they've been internally nominated, 
and none of them have sent in requests for membership. 

On that note, I have created a table called "Prospective Members" in 
the "Database" section of our, um, space. If anyone thinks there's a 
better way to structure the table, I'm all for it. Anyhoo, I entered 
all of Cindy's nominations, and added one of my own: Kirstini, who 
writes very well and whom I think would make an excellent addition 
to the team.

But, back to the point, the first list should be taken care of, 
pronto.

I'll now go and post my response to this post. ;-)

-Tom