Re: Membership dues [ was: Re: Advisory Board Letter ]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Chris DiBona <chris@valinux.com> writes:
> I don't want to sound like an imperialist, but I am worried about what
> no-cost membership would mean. Do we let any group that wants in to the
> foundation join and have the same power? If not, how do we select who gets
> to join? How we reject one project and not the other, etc... Obviously we
> wouldn't want some random group like the "titanic enthusiasts of america"
> be affored the same regard as the FSF. 
>

Two relevant things:

 - the elected hacker board should be able to veto applications for
   the advisory board (not sure we have this in our current
   charter document, but we should)

 - the advisory board has no powers anyway

Havoc