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The "member" role and how to become a member in Evolutionary Nexus

Submitted by George Por on February 2, 2006 - 20:14.

Lion called our attention to an excellent wiki page on the Member Role, at Meatball Wiki . It's worth to visit it. Let's feed insights gained from there into our conversation about membership in the Evolutionary Nexus  community.  Thanx Lion for the link!

The core team's proposition on membership issues

Submitted by George Por on February 14, 2006 - 14:07.

In the "Open to Whom?" conversation, many of us expressed an interst in having Evolutionary Nexus open to new members, and the need for some coherent policy about it. Responding to that need, Finn, Ria and myself had a couple of conversations resulting in the proposition that follows.

1. What are we members/contributors of?

We are members of the Evolutionary Nexus community described by its evolving "What Is" statement.

2. Continuum of participation

Guests = occasional visitors sent by the search engines or other guests

Users = frequently returning visitors who come here to find information they are interested in

Members = registered users with full read/write access to the site, who provide some information about themselves

Crew = the team sustaining the site

3. Principle of access

Our principle of access to the site: make it as open as possible without overstretching the carrying capacity of the people who volunteer to provide technical support, facilitation, knowledge gardening, and other community support services.

We want to make forums open to read by guests and visitors, by default, just like blogs and wikis are today. If you have posted anything in the forums that they don't want to make visible to non-members, please remove it. Groups who want to have a private forum, will need to ask Ria to create one.

4. How to become a member

To sustain some level of coherence in our virtual field, Evolutionary Nexus will be an invitational community, just like the Evolutionary Salons. New members can get invited by existing members, in two ways.

1. Any current member can invite friends whom s/he thinks is aligned with What Is Evolutionary Nexus, and has a propensity to work with us towards our mission.

2. Guests and users who read the site and get inspired to participate will need to ask a current member to invite them, and tell why they want to be invited. Most requests will be honored with an invitation but requests can also be declined if they don't have merit.

This way adds a personal touch to the invitation process, opens a dialogue between the would-be member and the Nexus community, a little bit like would-be housemates get interviewed by a co-housing community.