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[Jonathan Bryce <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Thor Wolpert wrote:
> 
>> I thought a Foundation that paid for legal, marketing and core
>> services; along with a hosted set of projects whose membership was
>> based upon meritocracy was the model.

That is and always has been the plan and can be seen in the existing detailed structure proposal: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Structure

I think Josh is really focusing more on the details of membership on the Board, which is separate from the the governance and membership of the projects.