Dear Leadership Committee,

I'm voting a.

Thanks for voting everyone, the results are as follows:

 b. Ted
 a. Chris
 a. Tav
 a. Marc
 b. Josh
 a. Martin

This puts the vote at 4 to 2 in favour of adopting the membership
policy as official internal policy for the project.

The next actions are to publish this document as a PDF from the website
which I've done here:

 https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/

The next technical tasks are to implement the required functionality to
make sure our membership is open to our contributors. I've got most of
the way through the required functionality and will be deploying to
test.inkscape.org for testing in the coming week. I'll be recruiting
from vectors, testing and moderators to see if it works well enough.

In order to do the final task of running an election, we'll need the
FSA updated with the language that we previous voted on. I noted in
today's status update meeting that ted was pressing the matter with the
conservancy. I'll also add my wight to that, since I created the
original ticket with them, hopefully it'll help move things forwards.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Sat, 2021-09-25 at 19:11 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> Dear Leadership Committee,
>
> Despite the previous vote including a provision to allow for spelling
> and grammatical fixes, for the abundance of clarity for all leaders
>  please vote on this amended version which includes all the small
> grammar fixes from each respondent.
>
> The previous vote should be considered advisory and void in so far as
> it allowed this revision to be drafted. Thank you to everyone for
> baring with this drawn out process.
>
> Ballot:
>
> a. Adopt the internal membership policy attached.
> b. Do not adopt the policy.
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
> On Thu, 2021-09-23 at 14:19 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Dear Leadership Committee,
> >
> > As discussed; the two week consultation is finished. Thanks to
> > everyone
> > who came to the meetings, commented here on the mailing list and
> > sent
> > private messages. I've distilled everything down into a internal
> > policy
> > document which we can now vote on.
> >
> > The preference from other board members was to put this strait to a
> > vote since we've talked about this for a long time. So hopefully
> > this
> > represents a balanced and fair membership process.
> >
> > See the attached draft policy document that we are voting on here.
> >
> > Ballot
> >
> >  a. Adopt the internal membership policy as is.
> >  b. Adopt it after these minor modifications.
> >  c. Do not adopt this policy, or anything like it.
> >  d. Do something else.
> >
> > Best Regards, Martin Owens