Thanks for the responses. I'm really looking forward to the debate later today!
One point I would raise, and it is one that Thomas picked up on a bit. I don't think we can have a pure meritocracy /and/ expect some of the membership to pay to support the project management. I am going to have a very hard time explaining to my exec why we should be spending $$$ on DPDK when there is no clear benefit to membership.
Comparisons have ben made to the OVS project, which is fine, but OVS does not have any membership costs (as far as I can see) and LF host this project for free.
I don't think we can have both of these positions hold true. We either have
1 - a pure meritocracy - ie the governance does not change and I believe we are in the same position as we are today
2 - Something a bit more like FD.io, with paid membership and paid access to a board/TSC
Regards
Matt