[57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Edward Watson
Hi all Below is a proposed new member procedure. Comments/objections welcome. [The procedure] 1. New members are asked to populate an email template (see below) and send it to the public discussion list. They are also asked to pay 1 months member fee at their first space visit. A director must

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Dave Hibberd
Would you like to use me as a test case to work out if this particular proposed potential personnel proposal procedure actually works, after there's agreement that the process potentially performs perfectly. In related news, today appears to be P alliteration day. H On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Calum Chisholm
Thanks for putting this together Ed. They are also asked to pay 1 months member fee at their first space visit. I think charging £20 to drop in on a Tuesday night could put quite a few potential members off. I would prefer to ask them for a £5 suggested donation, the same as we ask from 'casual

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Tom Jones
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:07:06AM +0100, Calum Chisholm wrote: They are also asked to pay 1 months member fee at their first space visit. I think charging £20 to drop in on a Tuesday night could put quite a few potential members off. I would prefer to ask them for a £5 suggested donation,

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Calum Chisholm
Ok, that's fine. So on submission of their application, rather than at their first space visit as originally stated. On 23 April 2014 11:13, Tom Jones jo...@sdf.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:07:06AM +0100, Calum Chisholm wrote: They are also asked to pay 1 months member fee at their

[57north-discuss] Bank Account

2014-04-23 Thread Tom Jones
Just got a call from our bank manager and the space finally has an account. If will be a week or so until we have access to it, but I can finally unstuff my mattress. -- Tom @adventureloop adventurist.me The most secure code in the world is code which is never written; The least secure code

Re: [57north-discuss] Bank Account

2014-04-23 Thread Rowan Evenstar
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Tom Jones jo...@sdf.org wrote: Just got a call from our bank manager and the space finally has an account. If will be a week or so until we have access to it, but I can finally unstuff my mattress. Yay a few more weeks and I can whack up a standing order

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Rowan Evenstar
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Carl Anderson noodlemon...@gmail.comwrote: Is a receipt for payment necessary? There has been confusion in the past when people have paid and it has been forgotten. So yes, I would say it was very necessary. ___

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:24:21PM +0100, Carl Anderson wrote: Is a receipt for payment necessary? Yes. Of course, if the membership is declined and they cannot produce the receipt for the refund, we keep the money. Iain. -- urn:x-human:Iain R. Learmonth http://iain.learmonth.me/

Re: [57north-discuss] New Member procedure

2014-04-23 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:04:58PM +0100, Edward Watson wrote: So the idea here is that we keep a secured reciept pad in the space for first time payments only. Everything else is electronic. This sounds good. A reminder: if you don't want to do electronic transfers, you can go to any RBS

[57north-discuss] Meeting minutes - and comments!

2014-04-23 Thread Aidan Karley
On Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 15:10, Aidan Karley aidan_kar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: the text controlled cable. Interesting - can someone elaborate? Sorry I couldn't stay longer at the meeting. Annoyingly, my partner didn't turn up for the quiz. It would make life significantly easier to be

[57north-discuss] Yahoo and mailing lists (was: Meeting minutes - and comments!)

2014-04-23 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:41:48AM +0100, Aidan Karley wrote: Comments : = This (perfectly reasonable, IMHO) message has been through several cycles. (1) I replied to an announce list message ; surely such messages should have the reply-to header set to point to the discuss list, not