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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> Have you thought about splitting the membership into voting and |
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> non-voting groups? You could have the voting membership as devs et al |
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> who have applied for voting rights (to address the quorum concern), but |
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> also sell non-dev (and therefore non-voting) membership to users & |
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> companies? It's easier to get companies to give you money in return for |
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> something they can advertise (hey, look, we're a Gentoo Foundation |
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> Member!) than to simply get out the begging bowl. |
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That could get messy. I would rather if someone wanted something in |
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return for giving money we could easily add them to our sponsors page |
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and they could then say "hey, look, we're a Gentoo Foundation Supporter!". |
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> (Btw, where and how do I sign up for membership?) |
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umm that's kinda what we're discussing here.. :) |
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Cheers! |
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-C |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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