Re: advisory board & announcement update

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Frank Hecker <frank@collab.net> writes:

> Why not have advisory board membership terms be staggered by quarter, so
> that companies would always pay for a full year and then would have to
> renew at the beginning of the corresponding quarter a year away. For
> example, if a company joined the advisory board on August 8, their term
> would run through the end of the current quarter and continue for the
> following three quarters, so their membership would expire on June 30,
> 2001. The foundation could then send out renewal requests at the
> beginning of each quarters; e.g., in the example above the company would
> get a renewal request on or before April 30, 2001.

That's much better than the other approach. Otherwise it'll also be very
hard to join for any company who's cominig later since they may end up
paying the full membership fee for just a few months or even weeks.

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