Add status property to Membership

[jpmckinney]

See #94 (comment)

Statuses with use cases:

• suspended
• expired
• inactive / terminated: when the membership is known to not be current, but no date is known

[kaerumy]

Some use cases here for this status field:

• Member of Parliament suspended by Speaker (disorderly conduct)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_from_the_UK_parliament
• Board of Director of Company suspended pending investigations
  http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/10/rangers-suspend-mike-ashley-allies-derek-llambias

In these cases, the persons still hold their position, but their status is suspended for a start/end period.

[jpmckinney]

Thanks, @kaerumy. You also mentioned expired in #94. Do you have a use case for that?

[kaerumy]

Use case for expired usually is for professional memberships of professions such as medical or legal which usually require annual renewals for practice.

At least here in Malaysia, many MPs are often practicing lawyers and doctors.

[jpmckinney]

Are you tracking the status of MPs' memberships in professional organizations? What is the use case for that (i.e. why is it interesting to track)?

[kaerumy]

Or main use case is to build up collective CV from different sources. Most
politicians in Malaysia do not disclose their professional and academic
backgrounds publicly, so membership in professional associations is yet
another way for us to build up complete transparent profiles.

Were they really doctors, lawyers or engineers? Are they still
practising?Usually one can enquire or look up the public database of
associations who can verify the status of their professional members.

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Are you tracking the status of MPs' memberships in professional
organizations? What is the use case for that (i.e. why is it interesting to
track)?

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[jpmckinney]

Great, thanks for clarifying!

[jpmckinney]

Note: resistance to status field in #111. Need to explore whether to use end_event as described in the roll up to #94 for expired, inactive and terminated. suspended may need to be handled differently.