Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Abel and all fellow members,

  Your point is well taken.  Yet Jan is right.  But in order for any
membership organization to be abel to have any impact of
significance, it must be abel to show it's members have
some skin in the game.

  This can be accomplished in several ways.  Subsidizing
less financially abel members is one way.  Our organization
INEGroup, used this method for some time.

  Make no mistake though if you want officers, committee
members and so forth to be quality folks and paid
for their efforts, you will be needing significant sponsorship
and donations.

Abel Wisman wrote:

> Jan,
>
> Are you saying that only members who can afford to pay dues are allowed
> to influence decisions and be a part of the governing structure ?
>
> If so then forget everything about bottom-up and world-wide
> participation, you just disqualified at least 1/3 of the world from
> being an integral part of this organization.
>
> Walter's idea is more friendly, the "I was there" t-shirt if you pay but
> no restrictions if you do not want or can not pay. I can imagine quite
> some people who can not afford to pay even the smallest amount but who's
> contributions can be very valuable.
>
> Can you tell me how much $ 5 is for a Argentinian and for a Vietnamese
> or Chinese, or Russian for that matter ? In large parts of the world
> this would constitute more then a month's salary, if they had a job to
> go to.
>
> Regards
>
> Abel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan Siren [mailto:sirenj@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: 15 June 2003 14:37
> > To: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> > Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees
> >
> >
> > Walter Schmidt wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Dassa wrote:
> > >
> > > > But their could be two or more classes of membership.
> > >
> > >    ...Dassa, a good idea! We could also:
> > >
> > >  - Set suggested contribution levels by country
> > >  - Those who join, join.
> > >  - Those who join and contribute the minimum get a
> > > Certificate-of-Membership, along with...
> > >  - Those who contribute at the Sponsor level get...
> > >  - Those who contribute at the Major Sponsor level get...
> > >  - Those who contribute at the Key Sponsor level get...
> > >
> >
> > Not bad.  In my view:
> >
> > "Those who join" can participate in (non-binding) on-line
> > opinion polls.
> >
> > "Those who join and contribute the minimum..." can join and
> > chair committees,
> > have voting privileges including eligibility to vote for
> > Board members, and
> > can stand as candidates for the Board.
> >
> >
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Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 131k members/stakeholders strong!)
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