Possible benefits we are looking at including with Drupal association memberships.
by kieran
Only two benefits received more than a majority of responses indicating survey respondents would pay for the benefit. In order to start simply and maximize the effectiveness of the all volunteer resources of the Drupal Association I am recommending we pursue only two possible benefits.
53.6% (379) -listing in member services directory (e.g. designer, developer,which industries you specialize in serving)
54.9% (392) - free attendance at Drupal Conference events and early access to registration
Drupal conferences are attended by only a few (600/150000) so it would not make sense to include free conference fees as part of the base membership.
Read the results of the individual membership survey or organization membership survey for more information. Use the graphs to see how different pricing would bring in less optimal revenue for the association.
Anonymous
Catch 22?
I disagree with the last statement. ACM (http://www.acm.org) includes discounted registration at conferences for members and many members find that very valuable, even though only a portion of members attend the conferences.
And with 54.9% respondents indicating that they would value free attendance at the conferences, I think the association should reconsider the value of free (or discounted) conference registration for members.
Tony A.A.
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Anonymous
Membership benefits and meaning
Agreed, even a modest conference discount for members has two clear benefits:
1. Encouraging people who already have established a stake in the Drupal community to go to the conferences.
2. Encouraging people who want to go to conferences (even if maybe most never will) to become members!
Also, the language about "Permanent Members" and "Admitted Members" has to be clarified now that the Association is offering open memberships.
For an organization that I helped found that is unusual in giving members in the traditional sense a legal role (of voting in a board of directors), see http://amazingthings.org/governance.asp (I had nothing to do with the web site).
(Not anonymous, but can't seem to log in...)
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective
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Anonymous
How about: Thank You
We contributed because we wanted to say thanks to the community. We've already received a considerable benefit (the actual software!!), so this is to say Thank You (we still use these words in English you know ;-)
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