Certainly, you all can decide on your policy, but I think it's a good idea to ask people to become members whenever possible. It's an important source of income at the IMC and it allows us to know who is volunteering and collect their information so we can stay in contact with supportive community members. <div>
<br></div><div>If $50 seems like a lot upfront, there's always the option of paying less or paying $5/mo for the year...no need to ask people before they are comfortable, but it's good to mention this as a "next step" in their involvement. I'm hoping to do a membership drive when I've updated the CiviCRM, so it's definitely on my mind. I'd love to brainstorm benefits of IMC membership that the tech group can offer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for brining this up, Brian!<br><div><br></div><div>Nicole<br><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Brian Duggan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcdugga@gmail.com">bcdugga@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I met a potential volunteer for the IMC Computer Help Desk this<br>
Tuesday. He was very enthusiastic about staffing the Help Desk and<br>
contributing to Help Desk documents on the wiki. He's not a member of<br>
the IMC. Today he attempted to edit the wiki and found he could not do<br>
so without an IMC account. He attempted to create an IMC account and<br>
found that account creation had to go through a human being. He mailed<br>
the Help Desk address asking for wiki edit access.<br>
<br>
I want non-members to be able to contribute to the wiki if they can,<br>
but right now this means granting accounts on every service that are<br>
benefits of IMC membership - mail, IM and microblogging accounts. It<br>
would be kinda crummy for me to ask him to send me the network<br>
troubleshooting documents he authored so that I could upload them to<br>
the wiki.<br>
<br>
What's the current policy for granting an IMC account? Does someone<br>
have to be a member of the IMC to have an account? What would be the<br>
effect of granting accounts to non-members?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Brian<br>
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UC Independent Media Center<br>
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