[Noisebridge-board] Can I get a receipt for my 2010 dues?

[Danny O'Brien]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:06 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Noisebridge Treasurer
> <treasurer at noisebridge.net> wrote:
>>
>> FYI, Jof, there is an official database of members, and I keep it. In
>> the future, it will be kept by the secretary. Ryan I suggest that you
>> ask a friend to bring up your situation as a proxy at a membership
>> meeting. You can put it up as a discussion item on the wiki yourself,
>> and I will probably be there to relay this conversation, but it would
>> probably be good if you had a proxy there.
>>
>> Since it's not a clear-cut situation, I'd prefer to defer to the
>> membership. According to the instructions on the wiki (I just edited
>> it to change this) contacting a board member is a legit "official" way
>> to abdicate your membership. It now says "treasurer and secretary"
>> which is a little closer to the actual record-keeping. In theory it's
>> totally fine if people abdicate via the president or a board member,
>> but they would need to then relay that info to me and the secretary.
>>
>> Ryan, I really doubt that there would be any issues with reinstating
>> you as a member, but I like to respect the consensus on this sort of
>> thing. Especially since you can resume regular donations any time, and
>> the only difference that being an official member provides is that you
>> will be able to "participate fully in the consensus process" as they
>> say.
>>
>> See https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Membership/FAQ and
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Membership etc regarding membership
>> vs being a regular donor.
>>
>> -Kelly

Incidentally, I'm happy to raise this as a general or specific
question at today's meeting.

My personal feeling is that our tradition is that we have to ask you
(like some sort of curse) three times whether you want to not continue
paying before NB can (optionally) revoke membership:

"If you have not paid dues for three months or more, and have not
responded to at least three months of contact attempts by the
treasurer or other board member or officer, your membership can be
revoked by Noisebridge. If you later want to rejoin, you must go
through the joining process again."

We probably need to actually institute the repeated questioning -- I
think mct is doing this by hand with hiatus members right now, but we
also have the edge case where we don't have a record of a member (and
therefore don't contact them) which has also cropped up.

Will think on it.

d.




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>
>
> This response is a really well written description of a sensible (to me)
> noisebridge process and needs to be kept as a best practices example for
> future officers
>
> Thanks for putting the time into this response, Kelly.
>
>
> -rma
>
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