<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dues are a bad idea!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sorry folks</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Caryl<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On May 12, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 May 2016 at 22:28, Sam Parkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Is a membership fee for volunteers even something that any other Free Software orgs do? GNOME doesn't seem to.</div><div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Its very common for clubs/nonprofits to do this. FSF, Conservancy, TUG, UKTUG run membership programs, and I also pay member dues to several typography non-profits (ATypI, SoTA, TDC) and in the past for a sailing club.</div></div></div> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)</span><br><span><a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>