[plug] Plug membership drive?

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Thu Jan 10 15:38:07 WST 2002


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, skribe wrote:

> At Harry's suggestion I've moved this thread to the plug list:
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> In the last episode....

Nice summary.
 
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> 
> And now for today's exciting adventure.....ok, well maybe not.
> 
> Perhaps it is the level of my cynicism or a demonstration of my lack of 
> maturity, but I believe just asking won't boost fee-paying member numbers by 
> much.  Also I don't believe that suggesting that we introduce a membership 
> card is catering to the mememememe mentality.  If anything it would help 
> better develop the PLUG community.  Once we finalise a logo I'd also like to 
> see t-shirts.  Sure, it will bring in some dosh to the club, but it will also 
> mean I have something that says, "PLUGger and proud of it." YMMV.

On several occaisions I've spoken to Chris at LSWA about a membership card.
He's keen on it.  I'm keen on it.  Not so much from a discount POV,  I can't
really think of other benefits from it ..... Still keen on it tho.

The main reasons it hasn't happend.
	1) No-one else was screaming for it.
	2) I haven't really had the time to look at it.
	   As the sec./Treas. I kinda figured that it was for me to do.
	3) Logo or Lack there of.
	4) There's always been "bigger-n-better" things to do:
		a) sort out the membership database ... WIP
		b) library
		c) installfests ... yes plural
		... the list really just goes on.


If someone can look into what we need to do a decent job of a membership card
then I think we should do it.   discounts and mememememem mentality asside.

I also agree with skribe that once we get the Logo done t-Shirts are a good
idea.  The couple of times they've come up, people have been keen on a PLUG
shirt.  I can't really see it costing us much more than $20.00 each to make

I realise that this is basically a large "mee too" post. Don't really have
much to say other than give my support, and to thank the people that have 
recently (last 4-6 months) mucked in (in a big way) with PLUG.  (Perhaps I'm 
just tired)

> PS: I hope the attributions and quotes are understandable.

Made sense to me.

Yours Tony.

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