Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut

2010-02-17 Thread Charles Matthews
Tom Holden wrote: Hi all, We are considering cutting the membership fee to £5 flat. (It is currently £12 waged, £6 unwaged.) We would like to expand membership before the AGM and we feel cutting the membership fee will help with this. It will also simplify our administration.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut

2010-02-17 Thread Tom Holden
Well, but it should nonetheless be sufficient to reduce the chance that people sign up for a joke or similar. Particularly when combined with the cost of getting to the AGM etc. How strongly do you feel about this? Is £12/£6 actually any better? -Original Message- From:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut

2010-02-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 17 February 2010 15:59, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: So, what signal does this send? For me, nothing very positive about the organisation. Setting a price below a typical cinema ticket isn't really a claim on anyone's respect. The idea is that members join to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut

2010-02-17 Thread Charles Matthews
Thomas Dalton wrote: On 17 February 2010 15:59, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: So, what signal does this send? For me, nothing very positive about the organisation. Setting a price below a typical cinema ticket isn't really a claim on anyone's respect. The

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership Fee Cut

2010-02-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 17 February 2010 22:15, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: The logic of soliciting donations is always that if there is more money, more can be done. Money doesn't make the world of the WMF go round, but in the real world money tends to be given to those who show they