Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

While I concur here, I add, money is money and building a large base is the 
best way to get sponsors and sponsors are the best way to build a base.
We move inside to inside then inside to outside and remember that marketing 
is education and education is marketing.
eric

> I think you're right Paul
> 
> The only peripheral 'sweeteners' for contributing money should be
> things like a public acknowledgement, or a webpage profile, or
> advertising, or things which do not effect the fundamental all-equal
> democratic impulse for a bottom-up users' organisation
> 
> Membership itself - and particularly the right to participate and vote
> - should be open to all... the other way we will put off thousands, and
> devalue the real strength of our democratic argument
> 
> We should avoid - at all costs - "being like them"... if you play their
> game by their rules, they always win!
> 
> We should not be a sophisticated club, we should be a people's movement
> - a people's movement full of information and driven by the case for
> democratic representation in the way *our* internet is administered
> 
> Yrs,
> 
> Richard H
> 



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