From: | Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(at)pgug(dot)de> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, damien(at)dalibo(dot)info, pgeu-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Release Candidate of the PostgreSQL Europe association statutes |
Date: | 2008-01-14 00:28:43 |
Message-ID: | 20080114002843.GB31998@base.wars-nicht.de |
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Hello,
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 04:14:19PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
> >Ok, a membership fee for people is maybe not a very good idea. But a
> >fee for organizations or companies is widely known. So maybe we should
> >change parts of the statues here. If we don't have a membership fee for
> >persons, we avoid all the following problems like having organizations
> >pay for their members to the eu group.
>
> It is up to you folks but I strongly suggest *not* having companies be
> members. If you want companies to be *sponsors* that is good but the
> moment you allow companies to be members, they will *expect* something
> for that money. Explicitly things like direction and certain amounts of
> control.
>
> People are members, companies are sponsors. I would also suggest that
> sponsorships be clearly defined as to the benefits thereof.
Good point, yes. Thank you for the reminder.
Kind regards
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
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