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@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
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,
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