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Ya, it annoys me too (Score:1)
I seem to recall there was some flustering about how the US-imposed corporate structure was crap and so they legally couldn't do anything useful to help themselves.
Or something like that...
Re:Ya, it annoys me too (Score:2)
With regard to memberships, we've discussed this too. There are various questions that need to be sorted out to offer memberships. But those issues aside, what would memberships have to offer the average perl coder to make it worthwhile? (I'm really asking.)
Most Perl stuff is already out there and free. We could try things like discounts for The Perl Review, books, etc., but the question is would managing all of this really add enough value to be worth it? I'm skeptical that a TPF membership could offer something to someone like Adam (to pick on him since he commented above) that he can't already get on his own.
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IMHO membership would be just a simple way to set several levels of monthly donations. The little extra benefits would be to get a T-shirt with onion or a
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- A vote in notional executive elections, if we ever had enough people to take it that way.
- Points to spend on helping choose which grants to fund?
- A complementary (and possibly exclusive?) DVD of talks from, say, YAPC::NA turning up at my door unexpectedly.
But in general, the same things as you get from any membership.
1. Community
2. Exclusivity
3. Respect
4. Influence
5. Altruism
Don't treat this as a pure dollars and cents exercise, I don't want membership because I get $x dollars CA
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