[rfu-membership] membership form and membership list

[Mike Lehman]

Noel,
People have generally been willing to help at IMC Finance. The issue is 
coming to them with a clear request and then being willing to help them 
achieve what RFU needs. If we expect that there is some vast bureaucracy 
out there that should be doing work for us, and then we wait for them to 
do it, that is where the misunderstandings arise. We could revisit this 
week's meeting for a very good example of "let's blame the IMC for our 
lack of action" but...let's not.
:)

I would argue that we want as much coordination and overlap as possible. 
The confusion comes we end up working off two sets of books, lists, 
whatever. Then there is no way to easily resolve or update info or data. 
We've already been there, done that. I can tell you that is the wrong 
way to go. RFU is part of the IMC and we only create more work for 
ourselves by insisting on duplicating things that IMC Finance can handle 
now.

We can provide a supplementary RFU sheet to attach to the IMC membership 
form, if what we need won't all fit on the IMC form, but the two need to 
be tied together or we'll quickly lose most of the ground we've gained 
in the last year.
Mike Lehman

Noel L. Vivar wrote:
> That sounds great, Lavana!
>
> I guess one thing that we may want to consider doing is making our own
> membership form separate from IMC. That way, it would give us the
> flexibility of changing when we needed to. This way, IMC gets one
> membership form for records and we get one for our records.
>
> I think keeping things separate as much as possible might be best. We
> both need record copies, and perhaps there are times that both groups
> are looking for different information.
>
> It looks like you are getting help from Joy, but there's no guarantee
> in the future that someone will be available and willing to help if we
> need to make a change in the information that we're gathering.
>
> -Noel
>
> On 9/5/07, RANDALL R HAWKINS <lrhawkins at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>  I went in to see Joy today to see about the membership forms.  The ones
>> that were out to be used did not mention rfu on them anywhere.  Joy printed
>> copies of the membership form from the web site and put some of those out.
>> She also gave me a couple to mark up as the membership group suggested at
>> our meeting.  I don't think that the proposal for any changes in the dues
>> passed, but there did not seem to be any hitch in placing WRFU a little more
>> prominently on the form and allowing new members to show which working
>> groups that they are interested in.  This was not even an issure that we had
>> to gain general membership input on, so I am going ahead with that portion.
>>
>> Joy said that the suggested changes would need to be approved by IMC finance
>> and that she could take the form there tomorrow night.  I really would like
>> to get it done, but that doesn't seem to give enough time to allow for at
>> least a bit of communication amoung ourselves.  I am suggesting that it go
>> to the IMC finance meeting next week.  I can work on it here at home, post
>> it to our membership list, and we can look at it Wed the 12th at our next
>> meeting.  How does that sound?
>>
>> I also asked Joy about the possibility of working with her to determine a
>> list of WRFU members.  She can help, and she is actually currently working
>> on parts of this already.
>>
>> Lavana
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