The issue with a paid group is, as you say, the need to give value for the subscription which needs a serious investment of time from someone to generate that value. At present we all struggle to give more than an hour or two to the group, I don't see where the time is going to come from for anyone to do that.
George Land APT Solutions Ltd Sent from my iPhone On 21 Mar 2011, at 06:21, "Glen Batchelor" <batch...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
