On 24 June 2014 14:38, María Arias de Reyna <delawen+os...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But there is a big but:
That's why I decided to ask, what are those "buts", as I haven't learned any concrete arguments from the original thread. > It happened to me with IEEE and > I still haven't returned to them after so many years. Once I couldn't pay > the membership, it was like forcing me to go away. Yes, I experienced similar situation, but ACM/IEEE/... are different organisations. > So, couldn't we add some kind of volunteer work to compensate the fee on > some cases? Again, that is a technical issue related to amount of fee, region-based adjustment of fee, etc. First, we should focus discussion on the aspects Howard explained [1] and understand what are the major pros and cons of paid membership. [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-June/012964.html Best regards, -- Mateusz Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss