Re: [libreplanet-discuss] To be FSF member to have a voice? Does anyone listen?

[Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott]

On 2019-09-21 at 17:32, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Caleb Herbert <csh@bluehome.net> wrote:
> > On 09/20/2019 08:21 AM, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote:  
> >> No Leah, the way to go would have been to withdraw your membership - not 
> >> renew it!  
> >
> > We should become or remain members, so we have a voice.  
> 
> A voice?  You were an associate member when the mobbing had been on peak, 
> weren’t you?  Did FSF send you an email asking for your opinion?  Or did, at 
> least, inform you about a decision, while it still was preliminary?

"Associate Members are non-voting members of the Free Software
Foundation, Inc." [1]

Associate members do have a voice though; we can either:

 1. Contact the FSF ourselves to tell them how we feel (please be kind
    and supportive in this difficult time) or
 2. Attend the LibrePlanet conference in March, where associate members
    get costless admission and can attend the associate members'
    meeting [2] on Sunday during lunch to offer feedback on the FSF's
    work (great deal: pizza and salad for your complaints!).

I've done both.

Note however that RMS has asked people to keep guiding the FSF on the
right path and to not pressure for him to be president again.

[1]: https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits
[2]: 
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2019/sunday_members_lunch

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Founder and CEO, Libiquity: http://www.libiquity.com/