I'm a member of the local Linux user group in Calgary.
They recently went through the process of registering themselves as a
society.
They have a 2 tier membership system.Tier 1 is for anyone who wishes to
join, come out to meetings and participate in the mailing lists. There
is no cost.
Tier 2 is the same as tier 1 except it costs $20 per year and this
entitles you to voting privileges and discounts at sponsoring stores.
(http://clug.ca/node/13)
I am certainly in favour of a multilevel system as it lowers the barrier
to entry for casual people as well as giving others the ability to
benefit from the 'perks" of the group.
Martin
Keith Major | Aquarius Telecom Inc. wrote:
Meetings and user group membership should be free. I completely agree with
that. Business membership should be fee based.
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: November 23, 2007 12:22 PM
To: biz@taug.ca
Subject: RE: [biz] fundraising / business newsletter
I would still want to keep the meetings and list membership free. In other
words, there needs to be a way to be a part of this without being required
to shell out any cash. If you want the t-shirt, bumper sticker or any
promotional consideration, fine, but the basic membership needs to have as
few barriers as possible.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Major | Aquarius Telecom Inc.
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: November 23, 2007 12:13 PM
To: biz@taug.ca
Subject: RE: [biz] fundraising / business newsletter
I think developing TAUG into a professional association would
be a good idea with a small membership fee of $25-35/year.
This would help cover the cost of website bandwidth and
tables at conferences like IT360. Being a professional
association, we could leverage our member numbers and get
preferred rates with vendors such as, car insurance or movie
tickets just to name a few. Regarding branding or our group,
keep it the same as it is now.
It takes a long time to develop a brand and one that is easy
to say and unique is something we have going for us; TAUG.
Vendors such as Aastra know us and IT professionals who are
getting into VoIP know us about TAUG and let's not forget the
branding that comes from Asterisk alone. Asterisk is used in
multi-national companies and call centres deploying Cisco on
the frontend and Asterisk in the backend.
For those who might think about, "What's in it for me?" We
could have a text based vendor directory were prospects can
view in brief what you offer and click a like to visit your
site for more details. I believe this to be a fair and
workable proposal.
Keith
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