As a matter of fact, *no* Fellow actually got in touch with us prior to this public debate, and the most verbal people in this debate are not Fellows, and have not participated in FSFE's work of the past years in any other way, either.
I find this extremley insulting. I'm a GNU developer and a GNU maintainer, I can only take this as that the FSFE does not care about what GNU developers do, and does not consider it part of FSFE's work; despite the FSFE stating that the GNU project is one of its primary projects.
Just because someone hasn't shelved out money because of financial reasons to the FSFE and become a Fellow, does not mean that one is not participating in the FSFE's work for the past 10 years.