Hey,
Talking about hamakor membership reminded me of something I wanted to offer
a while ago but forgot.
There are various people working on promoting opensource in israel. I think
we should have some procedure of offering
this kind of people membership of honour (either as yedidim or as full
membership) which means they get to be members without
paying anything.
I think it's relatively cheap thing to do and might help to make the
connection of hamakor with the community stronger.
It might even be done in some ceremony or so.

Ely

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