I know I would certainly have appreciated some form of written communication through the post on becoming a member, just, y'know, to reassure me you guys knew I existed.
Even a welcome letter with a nice letterhead and a little card wouldn't go amiss. While you're there, you could preach to your enthusiastic new member about the sorts of project they could be involving themselves in on behalf of WMUK. This might add a few more man-hours to the project.
Incidentally, I should add that I have no particular view on dropping the membership price. All I can tell you is that I paid the discounted rate of £6 and thought nothing of it.
Jarry1250 On 25 February 2010 12:51, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:52 PM, James Hardy wikimediauk@weeb.biz wrote:
I can not really imagine any tangible benefits that WMUK can provide. After all,
our
purpose is to make knowledge free, it would seem counter-intuitive to
close
anything off to be members-only.
One that occurs to me is that perhaps WMUK could negotiate with GLAMs that WMUK members get a preferential rate to enter exhibitions and the like.
However, I think that would have to be some way off in the future, I don't get the impression that WMUK is big enough or has the spare man hours to try and get that off the ground at the moment. But maybe one day...
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