hi sam,

from time to time you manage to puzzle me. discussions with you are in
general path-leading and very inspiring. i appreciate this :) you know
why i edit wikipedia? (1) because i want to find that information
online afterwards, freely available, no strings attached.  and (2)
because i love to meet people around the movement so (1) is easier to
achieve. you know why people pay money (i.e. donate)? because they
like this as well.

you know what would make me stop edit? if you want me to pay
additional money only because i am an interested volunteer. this is
independent of how much money i earn.

just in case you try to say: i get it cheaper because i am poor, a
student, a woman, disabled, or my organisation pays for it. i want to
be treated as a normal person, and i want to pay a normal price. i
want my organisation to pay a normal price for me in case they pay. i
am not a beggar. my organisation is not a beggar. and i do not need
WMF to make me one. i want that our local GLAMs who are funded by by
tax money i pay are not ripped off additionally by wikimedia
foundation triggering high entry prices. this is also valid for people
like anasuya sengupta. as she is not contributing, she is not eligible
somebody pays her flight and entry to the conference. please do not
rip off people like her as well.

so - low ticket prices for everybody - and using donations to make
contributing people meet is a good thing. i volunteer to edit
wikipedia and i engage myself in fundraising and tax exemption to
allow this to people. besides (1) contributing contents, and (2)
contributing software, meeting is imo one of the three core functions
of the movement.

rupert.
https://twitter.com/swissglammies