On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/3 Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:04 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/3 Andrew Turvey raturvey@yahoo.co.uk:
For members, I'm not aware of any legal restrictions on the age of members and I don't see any advantage in introducing one. Can anyone think of any good reasons to restrict age? For me, if someone has the nouse to set up an account on wikimedia and participate, i think they would be able to constructuvely participate in the chapter and so should be welcomed in.
What do others think?
Wouldn't under 16s trigger more data protection issues?
Presumably no more than having supporting members under 16, which I expect we plan to do.
We still need to discuss whether there will even be a distinction between guarantor and supporting members. At the moment, I can't find a reason for one.
Well, I suppose the distinction is really that one is about governance of the organisation, the other about fundraising and developing a consistent income stream -- making sure that donors from 2008 go on to donate in 2009 as well. I don't know whether this is worth doing -- in any case, it wouldn't be necessary to make the decision immediately.
My other reasoning was that it was my understanding from someone's post to this list that it is not allowed to charge for guarantor membership -- is this correct?