I have put this on the agenda for this month’s Community Call (this Wednesday.)
There are many good points people raised here, and I think somebody should do a concise write-up to get this solved, otherwise we will just continue reiterating and rehashing very good arguments time and again, with going nowhere specifically.
One thing I’d like to mention is that we do have two good mechanisms to raise money: membership fees and voluntary donations through the OpenTechSchool Foundation. (The time frame to raise membership fees, or introduce more expensive membership levels, for this year’s regular General Assembly has passed, but with the pending Charter amendments we can push this through without setting up a full-fledged GA again. 
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