[Noisebridge-discuss] Proposal: Discounted full-year dues

Mikolaj Habryn dichro at rcpt.to
Thu Jun 17 23:56:32 UTC 2010


+1

(though you seem to have accidentally deleted the paragraph subtitled "Risk"
from your email)

m.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>wrote:

> Shannon Lee writes:
>
> > I would like to pay my membership 50 months in advance please kthnks
>
> This could actually use the NPV formula.
>
> If Noisebridge has an interest-bearing account, it could be set up
> so that the amount of money Noisebridge actually has in the bank at
> time t as a result of your payment is the same as if you had paid $80
> at time t.
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Time_value_of_money
>
> That is, maybe the proposal should be to offer members the option
> to pay the net present value of their membership over a certain
> number of months now, instead of paying their membership dues
> during that time.  If the accounting is done properly, this should
> result in Noisebridge having _exactly the same amount of money_
> at the end of that period, as a result of interest payments from the
> bank.
>
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