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Subject: Re: [office] good bye
Duane Nickull wrote: > On the other hand, OASIS is an organization that has to pay bills and > operate with an impartial and balanced set of rules. They cannot pay their > bills with contributions and good will alone. They do need $$. Absolutely. In addition, OASIS must also have rules to ensure fairness, for example, by not letting one organization dominate any given TC. I should note, however, that a non-profit organization like the OpenDocument Foundation does pay a membership fee. A non-profit does not get a free ride at OASIS. I don't know how much the ODF Foundation pays for membership. Judging from this page: http://www.oasis-open.org/join/categories.php My guess would be that it's either $1,100 or $3,200. That's enough to cover either 4 or 8 individual memberships respectively. I believe that it would be fair enough for the non-profit to be allowed as many representatives as their fee would cover if that money were reused for individual memberships. I believe that this is a more reasonable balance between the two extremes of either allowing a non-profit to have an arbitrary number of representatives or only allowing two representatives. I doubt that anyone would argue that this is unfair to OASIS. I hope that OASIS representatives will consider this alternative. Thank you for listening. Best wishes, Daniel Carrera.
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