[Linux-aus] Eliminating fees from the constitution?

[Mary Gardiner]

On Wed, May 04, 2011, David Newall wrote:
> Possibly a more aggressive position than I hold, but essentially 
> correct: We shouldn't change the constitution unnecessarily.  I'm 
> hearing no reason for charging $2, so let's not do that.
[...]
> If the goal of a $2 fee is to clean the member's mailing list, and I now 
> suspect it is, then I'm certainly against it.  We can get rid of 
> bouncing addresses without dropping members altogether.

The text about $2 is part of the model I'm proposing adopting, not a custom
change. If you want to see why I want to adopt the model, see the "rationale,
set of changes" post.

The rationale for adopting that model generally, and thus the text about $2
among much else, is outlined in that post and has nothing to do with cleaning
the membership lists.

-Mary