Hi,
Handing out email ids is not a particularly good idea. For one, email ids can/does
change. For another I personally
value my privacy very much, to give anyone food for spam, so I don't know how many
will like a solution like that.
About distributing ids to the members was exactly what I thought of initially. But
here again the logistics of such an
operation in not entirely in our favor. Let me explain why I say that:
1. We have a certain number of floating membership, ie people join and leave. In terms
of member turnover we have about
2 - 3 members leaving the list every month.
2. How does the actual distribution of the IDs take place, who keeps the
records....please bear in mind that we don't
have any office yet (although we are on the look out for one)?
3. Who has/have the spareable time to back these activities...If nothing we would need
to issue photo-identity
cards....who goes to the market to get it done??
4. Even if we are getting the ids made, unless we have a sizeable chunk of our members
opting for it, the cost of
operation will be too high.
5. The membership ids wouldn't come free of cost....I have made an internal proposal
to some of the key-members of our
LUG, they could be available on an annual basis, against a fee of in the range of 200
- 300 rupees. the money can be
used to fund ILUG-Cal activities. In return the card-holding members can get access to
all the special price
discounts/benefits that we may be able to get from vendors/dealers/distributors as we
interact with them in due course.
The cards will also be required to access the library (a s/w repository and
books/magazines as well) which is in
process of being setup in a modest way, as no issues can be made without some sort of
IDs or record.
[The card-holding membership will also be a possible criteria for having voting rights
in the AGM (annual general
meeting) of the LUG, after we register ourselves as a Registered Society under the
West Bengal Societies Registration
Act, 1961. This is not a luxury but a requirement as without a registration we can't
open a bank a/c and without an
account handling of the increasing funds of the LUG, as well as accepting checks from
sponsers become a major problem.]
6. All these activities as I have outlined above require time and quite a bit of
leg-work. And is only possible if more
members come forward to lend a hand with these activities.
Your thoughts on this folks??
--Indra.
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From: Robin Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ilug-cal] Getting special discount on books
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:23 AM
Well I guess there are two possibilities and we should
probably do both.
1. Furnish her with the list of email ids of the
members.
2. Distribute some sort of id to the ilug cal
penguins.
Then if you want a book you take your penguin id to
the shop. tell her your email id and then get your
discount.
What do you think ?
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