[wplug-plan] membership and pizza funds
Patrick Wagstrom
pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Jan 31 18:14:42 EST 2006
> Also, the collection of pizza money serves as a recruitment incentive.
> I'm not planning to push it hard. I'm just saying.
So Dave's post makes me think about something. Right now we frequently
sell newcomers on membership by pointing out that $5 gets you just pizza
or $5 gets you pizza and membership. It's great, we get lots of new
members.
But is that good? Stay with me here...I'm not saying that we need to
kick people or anything, but it's a concern.
Here's the main two issues where it comes up:
1. The size of the board scales with the number of members
2. The number of members needed for a quorum increases with the number
of members
As we get more members it necessarily make it harder for us to do
business -- all while a lot of people are never heard from again.
Generally on the wplug at wplug list it's the same 20 or people posting.
Meeting have the same 30 or so folks in attendance. That leaves a lot
of folks who are members but never do anything.
I'm glad we have their $5 and all - but this is a concern I've thought
about.
--Patrick
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