Talk:IHE Membership Application Form

Comments on the Member Application Form

Some edits to consider:

put a stronger divider between the Organization line and the Primary Contact so that it's clear the address information, etc. is for the primary contact, not the organization
should we also have the HQ address for the organization? At the very least, maybe the state/country to determine which legal system they live in?
add Organization Description so they can describe (a few lines) the nature of their business. Unless we require the applicant to attend the meeting of the Board when their application is reviewed (and even if we do), the Board members may not be familiar with the organization.
add Organization Website (same reason as above)

In the governance I think we require the choose their dominant Organization Type, and Interest Category since we refer to that in some of the guidelines (e.g. User co-chair), so people shouldn't register as several.
Put a blank line for Organization Type and another for Interest Category and add a note that these are to be filled with values from Section x.y of the governance. Where we have defined what they mean, we want them to register based on our defined meanings instead of what they think it ought to mean from the 2 or 3 words.

For the Committees, since members can assign reps to committees freely at any time by contacting the chair, maybe we should get them used to that process. Replace this section with just a line for "IHE Domains of Interest:" and one for "IHE Regions of Interest:". Then the approval email we send to the primary contact can point them at where to find/contact the relevant cochairs to assign representatives.

I'm half tempted to add a line for "Profiles of Interest". It wouldn't limit them in any way, but it would give the board a feeling for where the organization was coming from, and we might be able to point them at specific current work that might interest them so they can start getting their feet wet right away rather than just starting with a broad domain/region.

The discussion of both the Principles of Governance and the Intellectual Property Agreement above the signatures in the Declaration makes it ambiguous as to whether these signatures are intended to bind the member to the terms of the IPA or if the IPA is signed separately.

the template should include names/contact information of officers/directors of the proposed national/regional initiative