Membership dues

So,

As mentioned on -private, I joined OSI last week. This week I received
this email. This is the type of stuff that I think that SPI is greatly
missing out on; building relationships with its members and the external
community.

Hello Joshua,

I wanted to personally thank you for recent membership. It is only
through the contributions of our community that the OSI can continue our
important work to educate the world about, and increase adoption of,
open source software.

Please find attached your OSI Individual Membership Card, suitable for
printing. The OSI participates in a variety of events, and is working
with our sponsors and affiliates, to provide various benefits for our
members, such as discounts on conference registrations, books, hardware,
etc. Your OSI card includes your OSI member number which may be needed
to receive some of these benefits. Some current examples include:

Free three months subscription to LinuxVoice Magazine with access to
back-issues (electronic version).
50% off Joomla World Conference.
20% off O'Reily's OSCON registration fees.
10% off Linux Foundation conferences, e.g. LinuxCon and CloudOpen
As a new member you should join the OSI Member Mailing List
(members(at)opensource(dot)org) at:
https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members. You may
also want to join our other mailing lists that may interest you
(http://opensource.org/lists). In addition, please register for our wiki
(http://wiki.opensource.org) where you can actively participate in
developing OSI initiatives, join working groups and help define the
direction for our organization. You may also want to join the OSI's IRC
channel on Freenode, #osi.

Finally, please keep your eye out for our semi-monthly newsletter which
provides updates about the OSI, our community and how you can participate.
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Wow, OSI must have general members who have become contributors so that
action items get done.
*They have $40/year dues, but that's another discussion.*

So, where's the SPI issues list on Bitbucket or Github so members can see
the issues and become contributors?
Bitbucket & Github are FREE as in BEER (not perfect but not too shabby) and
immediately do-able.
And they both have a built-in wiki!!!!

Where's the searchable SPI forum using Discourse on a DigitalOcean or
Bitnami VM so members can catch up with current and past discussions and
activities?
DO is $20/month, +$4 for weekly backups. $288 per year total, Mighty cost
effective, and again it's immediately do-able.
If needed we could ask for donations from members.
I'm in for $25 if we go this route, and there are probably eleven more SPI
members who could donate the same.

Think of it this way:
If I had to eat only 100% organic food while working to make the world's
food sources more organic,
this would be possible only in specific urban areas, e.g. not possible in
Dayton, Ohio but entirely doable in NYC.
Sub-optimal choices for tools are okay, it's not an abandonment of the
cause.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
wrote:

> So,
>
> As mentioned on -private, I joined OSI last week. This week I received
> this email. This is the type of stuff that I think that SPI is greatly
> missing out on; building relationships with its members and the external
> community.
>
>
> Hello Joshua,
>
> I wanted to personally thank you for recent membership. It is only through
> the contributions of our community that the OSI can continue our important
> work to educate the world about, and increase adoption of, open source
> software.
>
> Please find attached your OSI Individual Membership Card, suitable for
> printing. The OSI participates in a variety of events, and is working with
> our sponsors and affiliates, to provide various benefits for our members,
> such as discounts on conference registrations, books, hardware, etc. Your
> OSI card includes your OSI member number which may be needed to receive
> some of these benefits. Some current examples include:
>
> Free three months subscription to LinuxVoice Magazine with access to
> back-issues (electronic version).
> 50% off Joomla World Conference.
> 20% off O'Reily's OSCON registration fees.
> 10% off Linux Foundation conferences, e.g. LinuxCon and CloudOpen
> As a new member you should join the OSI Member Mailing List (
> members(at)opensource(dot)org) at: https://lists.opensource.org/c
> gi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members. You may also want to join our other
> mailing lists that may interest you (http://opensource.org/lists). In
> addition, please register for our wiki (http://wiki.opensource.org) where
> you can actively participate in developing OSI initiatives, join working
> groups and help define the direction for our organization. You may also
> want to join the OSI's IRC channel on Freenode, #osi.
>
> Finally, please keep your eye out for our semi-monthly newsletter which
> provides updates about the OSI, our community and how you can participate.
> --
> Command Prompt, Inc. http://the.postgres.company/
> +1-503-667-4564
> PostgreSQL Centered full stack support, consulting and development.
> Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you are honest with them.
> _______________________________________________
> Spi-general mailing list
> Spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
> http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
>

On 08/23/2016 12:42 PM, Susan Spencer wrote:
> Wow, OSI must have general members who have become contributors so that
> action items get done.

I would also note that with this email came a professional annual report
which reinforced my decision to join.

JD

--
Command Prompt, Inc. http://the.postgres.company/
+1-503-667-4564
PostgreSQL Centered full stack support, consulting and development.
Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you are honest with them.

Hello,

Per below, I don't actually think we need membership dues because of our
corporate model, we are guaranteed income as long as our associated
projects are getting donations.

I can however see a situation where we do a fundraising drive for
specific things (say to build professional quality tutorials with video
for X free software).

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Membership benefits
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:42:03 -0500
From: Susan Spencer <susan(dot)spencer(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org

Wow, OSI must have general members who have become contributors so that
action items get done.
/They have $40/year dues, but that's another discussion./