On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:14 AM, jon <[email protected]> wrote: > "As of March, we have 37 financial members.
Please note that "As of March" refers to "immediately prior to the AGM". As of the AGM the number is now (if I'm recalling correctly) 25. > > I don't know if this is the place to raise this, but as a new member I can > think of two things that might help: > > 1. Make it possible to obtain and renew membership online -- or even by > snailmail -- rather than having to physically attend a meeting (right now, > for instance, I'm not a member because I don't get into town when the > meetings are on). It's already possible to do so by snailmail, and 4% of current members availed themselves of this. http://wiki.slug.org.au/activeconstitution has the rules for becoming a member in the section "APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP". The address to send your snail mail is listed on http://slug.org.au/contacts.html. Online would be more convenient though. CCing committee list because that's something I'd like us to look into (actually, I think I heard Neil muttering about this already). > I don't want to alienate the technical gurus, but I suspect that over the > next five years or so there will be increasing numbers of people in the same > situation that I am. So if you are looking for ways to promote SLUG, that's > my two cents' worth. Right now it all seems very technical and insular. *checks timestamp* No, this really was written today. It's interesting you say that, because we've already lost a lot of the Old Guard for precisely this reason - they feel we've drifted too far in this direction for them to be interested any more. The message I get from this is that we are currently trying to serve a very diverse audience, and failing to serve any of it very well. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
