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On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Lane Rasberry wrote:

Hello,

Most chapters that I have seen have some process for asking someone to pay a small amount of money, typically less than the pay rate for one hour of low-paying work in their country, to become members. Also most chapters try to invite as many people as possible in any circumstances to become members.

I think that any system which collects contact information from people at events and then later invites them to join the organization by doing something additional is what would be expected based on precedent.

yours,


On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Great. I would make a distinction between those who want to register for the event only, those who want to subscribe to this list but not become dues-paying members, and those who want full membership. The last category we can't easily fill yet. I would suggest asking everyone who attends the event to, at the end of the event, (1) consider signing up for this email list if they have not already done so via the registration sheet, and (2) to follow as many of our social media accounts as they wish.

Pine

On Mar 4, 2015 10:42 PM, "Raymond Leonard" <raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,

In the [Wikimedia Cascadia] Outreach events and event logistics thread, I wrote about how we should have CWUG flyers & a means to join our user group at events like edit-a-thons. This weekend I plan to attend the Portland Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Saturday then the Vancouver Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on Sunday. I would like to have a means to sign people up for being Cascadia Wikimedia members. Right now this obviously needs to be informal, since we have not yet decided how one formally becomes a member of our user group. I was figuring on just a simple sign-up sheet, with columns for name, username, & email. I do not know if I will have time to put together a flyer, but I will try to get something put together.

I was wondering if any of you have any input.

Yours,
Peaceray

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