On 24 February 2010 07:52, James Hardy <wikimedi...@weeb.biz> wrote: > One model you may wish to consider is that which I the Liberal Democrats > use. They ask for a donation, stating that any donation over £10 (or £6 for > concessions) entitles you to membership with a simple tick box to say "yes, > I wish to join"
We did consider that approach for the recent fundraiser and rejected it because we weren't sure we wanted lots of members that hadn't made a concious decision to join and had just blindly ticked a box. Having large numbers of active members would be absolutely fantastic, but having large numbers of inactive members can make things difficult (eg. it would be difficult to get 50% of members to sign a written resolution, so any emergency business that requires a resolution of members would have to take place at a physical emergency general meeting with all the expense and hassle that goes with that). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
