I don't see why memberships must be free in the first place. Every user group i have been involved in required dues to be paid in order to fund meeting places. Why does any company need to fund anything that is strictly user oriented? You are receiving a user group service, which is free currently.
When I attempted to start the MV dev society it was based on a member funded association who's purpose was education and promotion of technology. I got a decent amount of supportive feedback from many DB vendors and VARs. I think that a proper MVUG would work if there is enough of a push to get the word out. Be sure the focus is not just another mailing list or you're wasting everyone's time. There has to be value there to gain interest and a basic mailing list is not enough to collect dues. Glen.mobile RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L] On Mar 20, 2011, at 11:54 PM, fft2...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/20/2011 11:18:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > antli...@youngman.org.uk writes: > > >> I repeat. You yourself said that you weren't telling other people what >> to do. Then PLEASE DON'T! >> >> Please STOP TELLING ROCKET TO GIVE MONEY TO U2UG. >> >> Please STOP TELLING U2UG TO SPEND THE MONEY. >> > > I'm not telling people, I'm telling a company. > Rocket wants something out of U2UG but won't give it the financial backing > it needs. > That's not productive. > Can you please scream a lot because everybody loves it :) > > W > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
