membership request

[Andrea Preite Martinez]

> AFAIK a wg is simply the members of any specific mailing list: that is the
> way the IVOA works. Subscribing to a mailing list means you are part of the
> working group.
Rob, Tony,
I think I found the origin of the "qui pro quo" : the WG twiki page  
was created (probably by Markus?) with the following sentence

>> >> If you are interested in actively participating in the IVOA
>> >> workgroup about semantics, please contact Andrea Preite Martinez.

inserted at the top of the page.
Furthermore, a section called "Members", a cut-and-paste relic of the  
previuos UCD wg page, increases the ambiguity.

Lets put it this way: if you read me, you are a member.

And to do our job as Semantics WG, lets define the neologisms
"active member": you have something to say, and you say it
and for simmetry
"passive member": like me in VOEvent: I'm listening but I'm not speaking
Both are sub-classes of the Class "member".

Good night!
Andrea
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