Hi,
Although invited associate members can influence other voters during the meeting, I agree with Martijn that mere presence without voting rights has very limited value. Even in JCP, associate members were represented by 2 elected seats. If Eclipse wants to be better than JCP, it should secure voting rights for associate members at least with one elected seat. And any associate member should be eligible for election, not just invited ones.
It's also very weird that the document now explicitly says that guest members have no voting rights. On the other hand, it also says that any additional individuals designated by Executive Director can be committee members, while it doesn't say anything about their voting rights. Does that mean that these designated individuals have voting rights while guest members don't? If not, it should be clarified in the document. I don't see a reason why any designated individual would have a voting right regardless of whether guest members have it or not.
