No for two reasons.... 1) Currently, nothing gets voted on by the membership, except elections. Personally, I think WISPA needs to expand its resources, to bring more things to the membership to vote on.
2) No because, it would compromise the ideals of WISPA, where WISPA represents the majority of WISP providers equally, not just the large few that could hi-jack the association for their own special interests. There needs to be benefits to the larger members for paying more, other than voting power. I also do not support membership dues that are equally proportional to subscriber count. Meaning, if one pays $100 for 100 suers, that does NOT mean someone with 10,000 pays $10,000. That would be overly burdensome, and possibly reduce membership. If I had 10,000 subs and asked to pay $10,000 to be a member, I'd quit WISP and hire my own part time lobbyist. I would suggest something more reasonable like 3-4 tiered levels, where each level up pays a little bit more. For example, for someone with 500-1000users, I don't think $500 is unreasonable, or for someone with 5000 users $1000 is unreasonable. I'm not sure what that number exactly it should be. My opinion is not to unnecessarilly "burden" Wisps by increased dues. The goal is to better "help" Wisps, by generating the revenue minimally required to put the things in place that Wisps need WISPA to have in place, to better serve them. If we wanted to complicate things, it would be appropriate to talley the current subscriber count of members, to calculate how large a revenue increase would be possible, based on the profiles of our members, to determine what we'd need to charge, to cover the additional improvements for WISPA, such as Executive Director salary. Personally, I'd like WISPA to be an organization that is self sufficient and can cover its base operating costs via contributions from its WISP members. Then Vendor contributions is the gravy that allows us to fund all the extra stuff. My opinion is, it will likely be easier to get greater vendor contribution, if the WISPA members show the value of WISPA by also contributing more. My personal opinion is, membership should always stay below $250 for WISPs under a 500 user count, just because it makes it easy to join. But once a WISP gets past that, they should be able to justify the greater contribution. But again, that is an opinion, before I understand what the average subscriber count is for current members. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Cosby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Suggestions for Executive Director > > > Tom DeReggi wrote: >> Davis, >> >> >>>> you'll pay $100 per year. $400 subs, 400. >>>> > Let me throw in a "devils advocate" question here. If I have 400 > customers and pay $400, do I get as many "votes" as an ISP with 10,000 > customers who pays $10,000? If you look at this in the purely corporate > sense, WISPA would be selling "shares" and each share gets a vote. > > > Randy > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.21/1458 - Release Date: > 5/21/2008 7:21 AM > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
