This document was started by Lara. It is intended to be food for thought. See this page for the original version.
First Draft
Revised/shorter version as presented by Lara at the last meeting below.
Questions to ask.
- Is this person going to enjoy and value living in one of the apartments?
- Is this person motivated & available to attend meetings?
- Is there anyone who feels that adding this person is likely to detract from their own experience of LAEV?
- In what respects do we anticipate this person making LAEV better?
- Will this person result in LAEV being more or less diverse.
- Does the community currently have time & interest sufficient to commit
to engaging this person as a candidate for the next 6 months?
Joe generated a new process draft based on Lara’s original, with input from Federico, Yuki, Thiago, and Randy at the June 21 membership.
DRAFT Greenlight Process.
Community Greenlight Process
DRAFT - Revised language from 7/4/07 Membership Committee meeting (Lara, Joe, Ann, Dave, Federico, Yuki)
The Community Greenlight (hereafter “greenlight”) is the transition event from “interested” to “candidate”. The greenlight signals the community’s active acceptance of an applicant into candidate status, and sets the clock on the community’s commitment to making a membership decision in 2-6 months.
The greenlight step is not intended to be as rigorous as the membership decision; it should be lighter and less time-consuming. Lack of information by some members (a concern such as “I don’t really know this person”) is not a valid criteria to deny green light, but actual negative experience with the person (such as “I have had a serious conflict with this person”) could be. A positive sense of the community about the applicant becoming a candidate is desirable to move forward.
Greenlight decisions may be requested by the applicant’s liaison or the Bienvenidos Committee to be scheduled at a Community Meeting. The applicant is expected to attend the meeting. The applicant must complete all the prior steps before the greenlight is scheduled.
In community consideration there are two basic questions, both of which must be answered yes for the applicant to be greenlighted:
1. Is the applicant ready?
2. Is the community ready?
For the first question, the community should consider questions along the lines of:
1A. Is this applicant going to enjoy and value living at LAEV?
1B. Is this applicant motivated and available to attend meetings?
1C. Is this applicant likely to enhance LAEV?
1D. How do we anticipate this person making LAEV better?
For the second question, the community should consider questions along the lines of:
2A. How will this person make LAEV more or less diverse?
2B. Does the community currently have time and interest sufficient to commit to engaging this person as a candidate for the following 2 to 6 months? Custom Coursework
Computer Coursework
If an applicant’s greenlight is not approved, and the applicant remains interested in becoming a candidate, then, generally, the community would wait two months before scheduling reconsideration of an applicant’s greenlight decision.