"Joining" vs "becoming a supporter"

[Jonas Oberg]

Right, the point is that "Join" as they use it doesn't really map, as far as I can tell, to either of these categories. You don't become a member, you definitely aren't staff, and I think volunteers only count those volunteering, not necessarily those contributing financially. Either way, you don't get a say in the FSF board.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the FSFE is structured similarly :-) But yes, there are also proposals to change this.

Best
Jonas

On November 30, 2017 5:13:06 PM GMT+01:00, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro> wrote:
>
>
>On 30/11/17 16:55, Jonas Oberg wrote:
>> As has been pointed out before, the FSF doesn't have this problem
>with "Join" implying equal status. So I'd trust them on this, as native
>speakers :-)
>
>
>This page has a link to their articles and bylaws:
>
>https://www.fsf.org/about/financial
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>http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/fsf-incorporate.pdf
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>http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/fsf-amended-bylaws-current.pdf
>
>The page was not so easy to find and the documents are scanned so not
>easily searched electronically.
>
>Nonetheless, these documents do explain how to become an FSF member and
>what rights members have.
>
>The first page of their Form 990 gives some statistics on the number of
>members and volunteers:
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>http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/Form990_FY2016.pdf
>
>9 voting members, 14 staff, 2000 volunteers
>
>Regards,
>
>Daniel
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