As you may gather, I have no money I can contribute and even a small membership fee is a bit of a hardship in my current circumstance, but - given a good charter and good projects - I may well be able to recruit donations from non-Wikipedians familiar with my work, or otherwise interested/supportive.....<br>
<br>for context, and not meaning to whine, only a a staatement of fact, through much of my last few busy years editing, I have been near-homeless, at times homeless, and/or living in substandard accommodations and otherwise just getting by....this is disability-related and from related disemployment; the devil finds work for idle hands, and my hands have not been idle, as some of you know well.  i&#39;m pretty much full-time for long bouts of time, to the degree that I don&#39;t get out and look for work (which is of limited options to me anyway) partly BECAUSE I&#39;ve enmired myself in Wikipedia....such is wiki-addiction; but wikipedia has also been a way to keep my mind from going to seed, although of course it can still go &#39;round in cirlces ;-)<br>
<br>I&quot;m also interested in seeing more advancement of the OTHER wiki-arenas, not just Wikipedia; I&#39;ve mentioned WikiTravel already, WikiNews also could use a good Canadian contingent but is seriously staff-limited; making it easier and quicker and more accessible to non-wikipedians could result in a new, independent, news service in Canada, which is much-needed; but right now they only have, as i recall, eight article reviewers, meaning taht the time between someone submits something and when it passes review to get published it&#39;s rarely any longer &quot;news&quot;.....I&#39;d also be curious about what marketing/packaging efforts there are for the saleable aspects of WikiMedia technologies, e.g. private wikis, corporate wikis, assocation wikis, and what those licensing/costs issues are....<br>
<br>MC<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Gerald A <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:geraldablists@gmail.com">geraldablists@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:39 PM, P Lahiry <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:plahiry@gmail.com" target="_blank">plahiry@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

As reluctant as I am to use the &quot;money talks&quot; adage, a decent membership fee will ensure that the member is somewhat vested in the organization.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>&quot;Money talks&quot; in a non-profit ... anyone else hear the ring of irony in that?</div>
<div class="im">
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The downside to this is that students get screwed over. Maybe we could setup a two-tiered system - regular voting members and non-voting student &quot;observers&quot;.<br>

</blockquote></div></div><br><div>There was some proposals with respect to two-tiered systems before. I think this adds un-needed complexity and divides the community.</div><div><br></div><div>Much better would be crystal clear goals and objectives that WM Canada will be working towards, and a nominal fee to be able to vote for the &quot;board&quot;.</div>

<div><br></div><div>It&#39;s better to solicit for a worthy cause, like the WMF does, in my opinion. Small fee for membership, but donate what you can to see</div><div>{some noble goal} achieved.</div><div><br></div><div>

Thanks,</div><div>Gerald</div>
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