[UCIMC-Tech] Grant non-IMC members IMC account?

[Mike Lehman]

Brian,
Another consideration here is potentially liability. This is not to say 
anything at all about the individual involved in the current case. But 
an example is WRFU. Because of the potential for individuals to engage 
in behavior that could threaten the WRFU license or to have conflicts 
with others at WRFU or in the IMC that might be expressed on air, we 
made membership in the IMC a requirement of WRFU membership. That way 
any person involved would fall under IMC policies.

We should be cautious of creating circumstances where someone who isn't 
an IMC member essentially gets the keys, but without any actual 
obligations to the IMC. I'm not saying that the circumstances for Tech  
here are like that for WRFU.  But it is important to keep in mind 
precedent, as when this is granted for someone who would never be a 
problem, the next time the question comes up, it might not be so clearcut.

If the issue is primarily a financial one, like other working groups, 
Tech can waive part or all of the cost of IMC membership.
Mike Lehman

Brian Duggan wrote:
> I met a potential volunteer for the IMC Computer Help Desk this
> Tuesday. He was very enthusiastic about staffing the Help Desk and
> contributing to Help Desk documents on the wiki. He's not a member of
> the IMC. Today he attempted to edit the wiki and found he could not do
> so without an IMC account. He attempted to create an IMC account and
> found that account creation had to go through a human being. He mailed
> the Help Desk address asking for wiki edit access.
>
> I want non-members to be able to contribute to the wiki if they can,
> but right now this means granting accounts on every service that are
> benefits of IMC membership - mail, IM and microblogging accounts. It
> would be kinda crummy for me to ask him to send me the network
> troubleshooting documents he authored so that I could upload them to
> the wiki.
>
> What's the current policy for granting an IMC account? Does someone
> have to be a member of the IMC to have an account? What would be the
> effect of granting accounts to non-members?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>   


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