Not just students, but also poor people...."ability to pay/invest" is not
always an easy thing....a lot of people spend time on Wikipedia because they
DON'T have jobs/incomes....students on the other hand aren't always poor....
MC
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:39 PM, P Lahiry <plahiry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In reference to the annual member fees, I'm in
agreement with Zana but for
different reasons. The next year or so will be quite an administrative
effort as Wiki Canada applies for chapter recognition, sets up projects and
gets charitable status. The directors of the corporation will need support
from the member community for this. As reluctant as I am to use the "money
talks" adage, a decent membership fee will ensure that the member is
somewhat vested in the organization.
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
"observers".
Thoughts anyone?
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Zana Gordon <zgordon(a)telus.net> wrote:
Hi
April 27th in the evening is fine for me. I would prefer to meet at a
room in UBC – restaurants are usually quite noisy and can be very
distracting.
As far as membership costs I think 5-10 is a bit too low. I don’t think
asking 25-35 is too much to ask. We will need to recover other start up
expenses – incorporation fees, annual filing fees (if there are any).
I think your suggestion for our first project is a practical one.
Regards
Zana
*From:* wikimedia-ca-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimedia-ca-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *James Heilman
*Sent:* Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:10 AM
*To:* wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* [Wikimedia-Canada] A few things
1) I am coming to Vancouver end of April and am hoping we can arrange a
get together. Wondering what time and which day would be best ( I am
thinking the 27th in the evening ). Also where should we meet? Depending on
how many people who are interested we could either meet in a class room at
UBC or at a restaurant.
2) Membership drive: As we are now officially incorporated and hopefully
will soon be an official chapter we need to prepare for our launch and a
membership drive. 1600 Wiki editors list themselves as Canadians here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_Wikipedians A 150 have
added themselves on meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada/Participants
WRT the process Alan Walker is working on a website which will take online
registration. We have been thinking a nominal fee of $ 5 or 10 dollars to
cover mailing and stationary costs plus some web hosting. We are in the
process of setting up a bank account for Wiki Canada. This will take another
couple weeks yet as the bank needs to mail the paper work out to the
directors. Thus official registration will not begin until after this is
accomplished.
3) First major project: I have been thinking that our first major project
should be attempting to get Wiki student / staff groups going at
Universities. Do others have interest in this? Other suggestions for initial
projects?
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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