Team Member Participation

[David Overcash]

Neil,
What many teams do is to simply mark people as inactive members.  This
doesn't necessarilly hurt anyone's feelings, but keeps records of previous
members and makes it easy for them to become contributors to your LoCo's
activities again without much hassle.  Simply put a clause on the wiki site
that inactive members result from 3 months of inactivity, or something to
this effect.

Hopefully that helps!

Cheers,
David Overcash

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Neil Coetzer <nit006.5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a relatively young team I would like to seek advice from some of the
> more experienced teams around the world.
>
> When the Zimbabwe Team was initially formed, there was a lot of
> enthusiasm and a number of people signed up. However, we have never seen
> or heard from many of them since, despite our attempt to get them
> involved and motivate them. It has come down to a handful of people
> doing all the work while most others do not participate at all. We have
> monthly meetings, but it is always the same old faces (and sometimes
> totally new faces who have not joined the team yet). On 1st November we
> held the first ever Ubuntu Release Party in Zimbabwe, and only four team
> members were present. Some of the more active members are starting to
> feel very frustrated by this and questions are being raised as to
> whether or not the stagnant people should be kept on the list at all.
>
> Since LoCo's are very open-door and completely voluntary, the idea of
> forcibly removing people from the team list could lead to further
> problems, but as other members have pointed out, the team listed on our
> wiki site does not accurately reflect the team in reality.
>
> I would appreciate any guidance on how best to handle this issue in a
> way that will keep active members happy, without discouraging other
> people.
>
> Regards,
> Neil
>
>
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