Re: [Fsfe-uk] Membership

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

ian wrote:

> [...] Associate members would be sort of sleeping supporters. Bit
> like signing a petition but would remain members until they decided to
> resign. ie unless they make the effort to opt out they are in and stay
> in. This means we don't have to have complicated systems of renewal.
If we were to build up an  electronic system to scale for the many 
number of users Ian is talking about then a lot of  new possibilities 
can be explored.

I have not had a chance to become a MandrakeClub member, yet.
They operate a nice model ....club members vote for new software within 
the Mandrake software repository.
Now, if we could get something like this done and complement it with any 
expertise that we might have in helping  schools customise software, 
then the  message of  free software systems will spread very fast and 
accurately.

Mozilla also has a voting system for feature requests.

If we can hone the security with the best trust metics available , who 
knows we will be runnig the next general elections too ;-)
(Seriously electronic voting is coming and it is a seperate plus point 
for free software in government)

Regards,

Ramanan