Stuart Herbert wrote:

> Have you thought about splitting the membership into voting and
> non-voting groups?  You could have the voting membership as devs et al
> who have applied for voting rights (to address the quorum concern), but
> also sell non-dev (and therefore non-voting) membership to users &
> companies?  It's easier to get companies to give you money in return for
> something they can advertise (hey, look, we're a Gentoo Foundation
> Member!) than to simply get out the begging bowl.

That could get messy.  I would rather if someone wanted something in
return for giving money we could easily add them to our sponsors page
and they could then say "hey, look, we're a Gentoo Foundation Supporter!".

> (Btw, where and how do I sign up for membership?)

umm that's kinda what we're discussing here..   :)

Cheers!

-C

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