[Ambassadors] EMEA Membership Questions

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Samstag, den 10.05.2008, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Gerold Kassube:
> *aaaaarhh*
> 
> 
> Am Samstag, den 10.05.2008, 22:32 +0200 schrieb Christoph Wickert:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > first of all I'd like to say thanks to Gerold who called me up early
> > yesterday morning to dispel my concerns. We talked for more than a hour,
> > in the end Gerold was late for work but he still did not manage to ally
> > my doubts. 
> > > I know there's reasons for the membership fee to be 128 EURO/year. 
> > 
> > According to Gerold there were two reasons for the 128 EUR:
> > a) "we are binary people" and 128 EUR equals 2*2*2*2*2*2*2.
> > b) "we are having the same fee in my local LUG, too"
> > Honestly I don't think that any of these sounds convincing. Maybe there
> > are better reasons, but this is what Gerold told me on the phone. 
> ^^
> THIS were my answers why the numbers are 1 2 8 and not 123 or 241 or 85
> or something similar ...
> AND definitly NOT the reasons why the Foundation members voted for EUR
> 128 per year!

Sorry if I took you to literally. Also as I already told you in private
I do not criticize you or your work. Please don't be offended just
because you are the chair of EMEA. Thanks

Maybe someone else of the people who voted for 128 EUR could explain it
to me then? I'm not talking about 128 or 129 Euros now but the general
height of the fee.

There are several people on this list who say the fee is very high so I
don't understand why this hasn't been considered by the founding members
before.

Christoph