[Noisebridge-discuss] Proposal: Discounted full-year dues
jim
jim at well.com
Wed Jun 16 17:55:26 UTC 2010
Y'all have reminded me of payment, so there must
be some tracking in place, yes?
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:29 -0700, Rachel McConnell wrote:
> I like this in theory but in practice it would be folly to officially
> promote it until we have an accounting system that can support it.
> Already we don't know who is paid up and who isn't; work is underway on
> a system to manage this but let's get it working first before we make
> massive changes to it.
>
> Rachel
>
> jim wrote:
> > (seems like a discussion of policy.)
> > per the proposal and the points:
> > * how much to discount for a one year pre-payment seems
> > the difficult part: too little and no one goes for it;
> > too big and we miss out on possible income; variable
> > (maybe within some limits, hoping for generosity) may
> > work....
> > * if we don't have a "real accounting system", as long
> > as we can track payments with respect to members, this
> > seems a non-issue. for example, i pay by the quarter
> > and haven't had any problems. if a payment is recorded
> > as income for the current month, is there a tax
> > implication?
> > * we should certainly try to help our current cash
> > crunch"; the overall downward trend scares me.
> > * grabbing a year's supply of money may help the
> > initially excited retain their interest over a longer
> > time period, which seems an additional value.
> > * i'm not convinced of your arithmetic, but certainly
> > money today is worth a fair amount more than money
> > some later day, especially if there's some question
> > about getting money on those later days. a real
> > answer to this might help settle the discount problem.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:49 -0700, Shannon Lee wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >
> >> This idea has been brought up at several meetings now and no
> >> satisfactory resolution reached, so obviously it's time to expand the
> >> conversation!
> >
> >> The specific proposal brought up last night was this:
> >> If you pay your dues a year at a time, you can knock $20 off. Or one
> >> month's dues off. Or some amount of money.
> >
> >> Many perspectives were voiced on this. I think it's a good idea;
> >> others disagreed, primarily because, as we do not have a real
> >> accounting system, this amounts to counting a year's dues as this
> >> month's revenue.
> >
> >> Again, I think this is a good idea, for the following reasons:
> >> * it could help with our current cash cruch
> >> * it means that people who get very excited about noisebridge for just
> >> long enough to be members and then never show up again have the
> >> opportunity to pay a whole year's membership upfront
> >> * the economic value of a bird in one's hand is double that of a bird
> >> in a bush
> >
> >> Thoughts?
> >> --
> >> Shannon Lee
> >> (503) 539-3700
> >>
> >> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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