I'm with David and Andrew. The chapter should send out an email when membership expires and perhaps send a couple of reminders at given intervals. I don't know if this is done now. I know a notification was experimented with a few months ago, but before then there was no easy way to know if your membership has expired or not.

Similarly, I don't if t's done now, but there didn't used to be an acknowledgement of a membership application. If it's not done already, the chapter should certainly send out a "thank you for your Ł5, your membership is awaiting approval" and then a "your membership has been approved" email.

Harry Mitchell

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Skype: harry_j_mitchell

From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013, 17:40
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership grace period

On 7 February 2013 17:22, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 17:01, Katherine Bavage
> <katherine.bavage@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> So - I'm not advocating FOR a reduction in limiting the grace period to a
>> shorter time span (say, three months) but rather seeking your thoughts on
>> whether that would be a good or a bad idea and why, much like I did when
>> asking about verifying the identity of members applying for membership.
>> Candid responses welcome.
>
> I'm thinking you should nag us more.
>
> *cough* I suspect I am one of said members. Where do I go to give you
> my money again?

Yeah, I'm with David - active members in grace are mostly just
forgetful :-). As there are virtually no things for which being a
member is essential other than voting, it's very easy to not get
around to it...

Is it possible to set up recurring membership dues as a direct debit?

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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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