>> c. During the training, I asked about being able to track members on
>> Leave of Absence. It was suggested to just move them to an observer
>> role and move them back to member when they return. This may become
>> tedious and error prone. And since OASIS has rules about membership
>> status and LOA, it seems the system intended to help us manage
>> membership should support that as well. It seems we won't be able to
>> get away from using our current TC membership spreadsheet since we make
>> an entry when someone goes on LOA with the date that they left and when
>> they'll return.
>
>I'm not sure that there is anything here that could be automated other
>than a reminder to the chair for when to convert that back to full
>membership status. And LOAs occur seldom enough (or am I wrong?) that
>it's probably not something that we want to spend resources building.
I disagree. As the Secretary for the SSTC & WSSTC, I'm often tracking at least one person on LOA. A possible manual approach could be to remove the "Voting Member" flag from members on LOA. Aside from this, I can't see any reason you wouldn't always have the "Voting Member" flag set for someone in the "Member" role.
It would be helpful to have a more automated process to provide an alert when the maximum LOA duration has been reached, but not essential (given the above manual solution).
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Steve
