Actually, the fee raise is not aimed at producing more income. <div>It is to make it easier to achieve the quorum for voting. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, although on surface the fee seems to be raised, if the person is participating in at least one of the OpenID Foundation events, it actually is cheaper for the person because he will get free tickets worth more than $80. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Since the aim of this proposed motion is to limiting the voting eligibility to active participants only, so other methods that gives only the active participants the voting right would do the job. E.g., you would have to be present at at least one OpenID Foundation Events or have to be an active member of the WGs or Committees. This, however, has certain administrative overhead. If the overhead can be somehow overcome, I actually prefer this method. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I am open to either way of doing it, but we have to make the organization a little more nimble by making it easier to achieve quorum for voting. </div><div><br></div><div>=nat</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Allen Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allentomdude@gmail.com">allentomdude@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Are the proposers certain that raising the individual membership fee to $100/year will result in a net increase in revenue? I suspect that raising the fee from $25 to $100 will result in substantial dropoff in individual membership, resulting in less revenue and more dangerously, far fewer members.<div>
<div><br></div><div>I remember that a couple years ago, former Google board member Dewitt Clinton proposed reducing the fees to $5 to help drive membership. I personally think that the foundation would be better off lowering, rather than raising membership fees.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Allen</div></font><div class="im"><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:44 AM, sakimura <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com" target="_blank">sakimura@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="color:rgb(38, 38, 38)"><blockquote><div lang="EN-US" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.3"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">3.</font></span></font><span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"> </font></span></font></span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Resolution: As of March 30, 2011, individual membership fee will be $100/year. The Board directs the Executive Director to waive this fee in cases of hardship, professional courtesy or other reasons on a case by case basis.</font></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.3"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Rationale: Establishes a community membership cost-to-value, offsets costs at current levels and discourages ‘join only to vote.’</font></span><font face="Arial"><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/_nat_en">http://twitter.com/_nat_en</a><br>
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