Re: [Fsfe-uk] Membership

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> > Also what we should promote as benefits will have to be different.
> >    
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> Presumably the benefits here are along the lines of 'your ideas intrigue
> me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter'? It's unlikely we would want
> to stretch to costs beyond marketing materials, etc., as part of our more
> general role to inform people about free software.
>
>  
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> > Also we should not encourage anyone to join ...only specific people who 
> > must have atleast some loose association with free software.
> >    
>
> Hmm, dunno. The ability for us to reach people who don't necessarily know
> anything about Free Software would be very useful.
>  
How about this...

One can only join by successfully answering a quiz.

Is the free in free software about
* free as in free beer?
or
* free as in freedom?

(The ones who fail will have to be spammed with an essay :-)))

All I am concerned about is that any such associated members might 
spread the wrong basic message.


Regards

Ramanan