In the context of Wikimedia DC, membership refers precisely to being a voting member of
the corporation. You get the privilege of voting in annual elections and participating in
membership meetings as a voting member. It costs $10/year and you have the option to
contribute more. That being said, membership is not required to participate. You can go to
every single event, be a very helpful volunteer, and do a bunch of other things, but never
actually sign up as a member. There are different modes of participating, and being a
dues-paying member is just one of them.
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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(a)gmail.com
(mailto: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(a)gmail.com
(mailto:raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com)> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In the [Wikimedia Cascadia] Outreach events and event logistics
(
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-February/0004…)
thread, I wrote about how we should have CWUG flyers & a means to join our user group
at events like edit-a-thons
(
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-February/0004…). 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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