A suggestion: "Helpers"

[Martin Meredith]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:39:13PM -0400, John Vivirito wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <
> jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tony
> >
> > Tony Yarusso wrote:
> > > I would suggest that these people would not need to be Ubuntu Members
> > > first, but rather that this position could be a primary way of
> > > recognizing contributions that would qualify someone for that
> > > recognition later (however, they should have already signed the CoC).
> >
> > Not sure if it would count but a +1 from me on this. It's always good if
> > there is more that people can do for membership recognition, and it kind
> > of sucks of someone has to be a member first before they can contribute.
> 
> There is something like this for freenode? does anyone have a link to it.

"Helpers" is (or was, not too sure if it's changed) the first layer of staff for
Freenode. These people have access to the staff channels, but no real power.

There is also Freenode's "Catalysts" philosophy, which is where I believe this
stems from

http://freenode.net/catalysts.shtml
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