There won’t be anything pay-walled ever except the major events, like IndiaFOSS.
I think, If the community members see the membership as a way to donate, they can choose to do so.
As you are leading this project, could you please give us an outline of the next steps in detail, along with a timeline? I’m assuming that we will go live in January 24, since you are thinking about integrating it with the platform,
We can learn from our previous attempt (FOSS United Memberships [Version 1]) and make a new effort in a way that doesn’t negatively impact our current processes - I feel there will be three sets of people who would like to contribute - time, money and mixed of both. We should have all of them. We can identify the members who have contributed time and give them an option to skip paying.
This is a valid point. Perhaps we should establish criteria for who can nominate themselves for the steering committee. Even if people gain the ability to vote by paying, they would still be voting for one of the eligible members. Does this approach sound good? @rushabh @vishnus