[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraising and membership at NB

[Miah Johnson]

The idea of "Affiliate Membership" has been brought up before. I think
somebody mentioned $20/mo to be an affiliate member, which didn't give you
consensus rights but you were for all intents and purpose a member. I think
the reason this hasnt happened is "well anybody can just donate $20/mo". But
I do agree, it might be nice for some people to say they are a Noisebridge
Affiliate Member, and pay their "dues".

I also do agree with you that becoming an actual member is a silly process.
I cant remember why it was decided that waiting 3 weeks (and requiring that
person to be present a 3 member meetings) before getting sign off to become
a official member. It might be a good time for Noisebridge to review
membership approval process.

-Miah

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:

> So last night someone mentioned that NB was functioning at a deficit,
> and that memberships were way down.
>
> I think there's some reasons for that.  The threshold for becoming a
> member is very high; it's a months-long qualification process, then
> $80/month once you join.  This makes it a lot easier to lose members
> than to get them.
>
> What if we added "lay members" for the Church of Noisebridge?  I'd be
> happy to cough up $50 a year or so to be a lay member and have a cute
> card I could carry around.  It would get a lot of us who irregularly
> visit NB and would never be full members ... like me ... paying.  I
> wouldn't expect any rights in return for that, and I don't think anyone
> else would either.
>
> I think we could also be a LOT more aggressive in passing the hat at
> events.  I was looking for a hat to pass at 5MOF in fact, but it ended
> before I found one.  Someone at each large event should be in charge of
> bringing the hat/can around and rattling it for donations.
>
> Heck, we could even take a $5 donation at events and offer beer as the
> premium.  That would net us $$$.
>
> --
> -- Josh Berkus
>   (former professional fundraiser)
>
> P.S. I do intend for the cooking classes to be a fundraiser, but so far
> attendance has been too low to cover my cost of ingredients.
>
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