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 <[email protected]> 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 > >http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/fsf-incorporate.pdf > >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: > >http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/Form990_FY2016.pdf > >9 voting members, 14 staff, 2000 volunteers > >Regards, > >Daniel >_______________________________________________ >Discussion mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe | [email protected] Your support enables our work (fsfe.org/join) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
