New subject: Process for admitting members

3 Dec 2008

I've been involved in a company with around 1,000 members and it found
no particular difficulties with managing them.  None of them were very
interested in an alternative "friends" affiliation; quite a few took
no interest in the AGM, but nobody ever suggested that the vanishingly
small responsibilities of being a guarantor member had put them off
joining (in part because the meaning of this was clearly explained on
the membership form, as I believe it is on ours).

Best Wishes
Mickey

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Gordon Joly &lt;gordon.joly(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote:
...
  At 10:14 +0100 2/12/08, Michael Bimmler wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Gordon Joly
&lt;gordon.joly(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote:

   I assert that that model is wrong. Maybe not for
inception, but
  certainly for the future.

Why?

 Being a member of a company (and in future a member of a charity)
 will bring a certain responsibility, which some may find is not what
 they want.

 A company with 1,000 members will be hard to manage. However, a
 company with 100 members and 1,000 friends will be much easier to
 keep running.

 I believe most people would want to be a "friend" rather than a
 "member", and I mean "member" in the technical sense of
"guarantor
 member".

 Gordo

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