[school-core] Membership structure - Coalition cleanup

["Justin Riddiough" <jriddiough@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been mulling over this quite a bit lately, this is just a proposal of a direction that I think fits the website with the coalition pretty well.

SchoolForge Operating Procedures
 
Membership 
-> cut <- Schoolforge membership is by groups, not by individuals. Individuals can, and 
ought to be, members of one or more of the groups in the coalition, but not 
members of the coalition itself. The coalition doesn't do much of the actual 
work of promoting free resources in education. It just provides a unified face 
to the various groups for the outside world to see, and gives them an easy means 
of communicating among themselves. Individuals should be where the work is, in 
the member groups -> end cut <- 

-> replace <-The SchoolForge website is a product of the SchoolForge coalition. Coalition membership is by groups whose efforts extend beyond this website, not by individuals.  The website serves to provide individuals a starting point towards learning about educational efforts within FLOSS, and an opportunity to non-technical (non-programmers) users to become involved in projects that follow prinicpals shared with the more technical aspects.  Through these interactions, individuals are encouraged to learn about, apply, and become active participants in coalition member efforts. -> end replace <-

 Furthermore,  as we have attempted to collect feedback from the various members of SF towards the development of the website - we have found that a vast amount of the members are inactive.  What I'd like to propose is cleaning up the list with taking the following steps..  First, we will create a list of the addresses that bouncedback, and the related projects - we will take that list and post it here to see if anyone might be able to follow up with any of the members.  If not, after a week or so, we could start to mark some of the member entries as inactive.  

Once we have a better definition of who the members are, I think we could make some good progress in picking up some of the more recent efforts and groups as members.  
Any thoughts?  

Thanks,
Justin