On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Matt Finnigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No, you're paying to go to the conference. Such events are rarely free. > You could choose to not attend the conference. > > > There is no way to pay to go to the conference and NOT have money kicked > up to the national in the form of a membership payment/renewal. I am aware > that people have tried to achieve such and been rebuff'ed. > I think a better way to look at this would be that you're being provided a free membership for your attendance and that the conferences are sending a % of your attendance fees to LOPSA for their support in making the conference happen. In this sense if you did deny your LOPSA membership, the money would still be filtered to LOPSA national in either case. LOPSA national does provide support to the regional conferences. > > And - yes - I could simply not go to the conference. In much the same way > you can just "not work at a union shop if you don't want to join the > union", which is the analogy I made earlier. > > D > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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