[Linux-aus] Proposal: *voluntary* paid membership

[Russell Coker]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Mark Walkom <markwalkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 April 2011 01:09, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> > We've already had one message which seemed to suggest providing benefits
> > to only paid members (the message in question seemed unclear to me at
> > the time).
> > Even if I misunderstood the message in question it seems like the sort of
> > thing that will happen if we go that way.
> 
> Providing benefits to *only* paid members would be a bit short sighted and
> entirely against what LA works towards, almost certainly creating it's own
> slow death.
> Providing *additional* benefits might provide impetus to get people to
> actively assist in funding.

If there are "additional benefits" to paid members then those benefits would 
be provided only to paid members.

There hasn't been any report of a lack of funding so I don't think that there 
is a problem here that needs to be solved.

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