When people sign up to lopsa, don't we sign up to follow code of ethics among other things? That implies active consent (which I guess people could decide on when "cashing" in a gift membership…)
regards donna On 05/04/2012, at 12:08 PM, Matt Disney wrote: > Hi, folks. > > As many of you are aware, System Administrator Appreciation Day is the last > Friday in July. Let's start planning what LOPSA should do to recognize and > promote it. > > One thing I have in mind is a membership drive of some sort, perhaps in the > form of discounted gift memberships. Want to show a sysadmin some > appreciation? Get them a one-year membership to LOPSA. And maybe we can give > better discounts if you buy 5, 10, 25 gift memberships. Ok, but maybe we need > to have some sort of gift to go along with it. Maybe a book of some kind, > donated or discounted to LOPSA if possible to make the numbers work better. > And some organizations don't pay for association memberships, so maybe we > offer the gift for a certain price and the membership is actually > complimentary. It would be a deal where it would be available for new > memberships or to extend the membership of a current member by a year. This > plan is not fully baked but I think it might have some potential. > > The reason I'm pushing for a membership drive sort of thing here (even if we > don't label it as such) is that increasing our rosters allows us to get > bigger partnerships/sponsorships and in turn recruit even more members. And > having a larger membership is one important way that LOPSA will gain > efficiencies of scale, serve our membership better, and also be more > influential in the public arena and to other organizations regarding system > administration as a profession. > > I'd like to hear what you think about the gift membership drive idea, > suggestions on how to improve it, and if you have other ideas for Sys Admin > Day activities. > > Thanks, > Matt Disney > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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