On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Bryan Richter <b...@chreekat.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:04:33AM -0700, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> >
> >    Paying a member fee is an interesting thought. I guess I hadn't
> >    considered that. I have been mostly thinking that it makes sense
> >    to give full time staff, payed or not, special representation on
> >    the board. In other words, I'm not sure I want a possibility for
> >    someone to be able to just "buy in" to that class, whatever we
> >    call it.
>
> I see your point. So the question is, who is being represented? What
> is a "full-time staff"?
>
> I agree with Aaron: trying to create metrics or algorithms for
> deciding such a thing sounds dicey to me.
>
> Would it help to ask what sort of needs they might have that would
> make them distinct? That is, is "full-time staff" truly a valid
> category, and if so, can we define them by their unique interests?
>

I think these questions are helpful, and are along the lines I've been
thinking. Issues related to getting payed for work are a pretty easy to
define set of unique interests.

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