[Ansteorra] Participation vs. Recruitment

Jessica Doss jdennison6913 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 24 12:39:27 PST 2012


maybe include one "gift" site fee per year with paid membership.  Up to a set amount....   Johanna of Bjornsborg

HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:

>No, that won't work.....raising the price of membership will not encourage
>people to become members.
>
><beats head on desk>
>
>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:10 PM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can we raise the price of a sustaining membership to include a
>> subscription to *Tournaments Illuminated*?
>>
>> Detlef
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Sir Lyonel <sirlyonel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree, cozyn. The corporation has really hogtied us with the changes to
>>> what a subscribing membership gets you. We should have tanked the
>>> corporation years ago.
>>>
>>> About the only remaining argument in favor of memberships is the "support
>>> your local group" tack, but even I no longer accept that.
>>>
>>> Tant pis.
>>>
>>> En Lyonel
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:27 PM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Not so much analysis as raw data. Draw whatever conclusions you can.
>>> >
>>> > Participation is indeed based on memberships. The problem is that only
>>> > officers and weekend SCA'ers (who go to calendar events outside of their
>>> > local groups) benefit from subscribing memberships. Exactly how do we
>>> > encourage weekday SCA'ers who are not officers (who go almost
>>> exclusively
>>> > only to events within their local groups) to subscribe? We can't exactly
>>> > tack a non-member surcharge to weekday events, because the vast
>>> majority of
>>> > them do not involve a site fee.
>>> >
>>> > When I first subscribed as a member of the SCA, the sustaining
>>> membership
>>> > included a subscription to *Tournaments Illuminated*. That quarterly was
>>> > worth the price of membership itself. Without that subscription, a
>>> > sustaining membership is little more than a qualification to hold office
>>> > and a way to dodge a non-member surcharge. The information presented in
>>> a
>>> > kingdom newsletter like *Black Star* benefits weekend SCA'ers and
>>> officers
>>> > far more than it does weekday SCA'ers. There is not much incentive for a
>>> > weekday SCA'er to become a subscribing member.
>>> >
>>> > The price of a sustaining membership in the SCA--including the recent
>>> > increases--is still far lower than the price of membership in most
>>> > professional and academic organizations, but I doubt that many younger
>>> > newcomers to the SCA can appreciate that fact. If we are able to
>>> encourage
>>> > weekday SCA'ers to become subscribing members, local groups would be
>>> able
>>> > to maintain their required membership numbers, and the generated revenue
>>> > would allow increases in the price of membership to be lower than they
>>> have
>>> > been in the recent past.
>>> >
>>> > Again--how do we do that? Do we make subscribing memberships more
>>> > beneficial to weekday SCA'ers, or do we find some means other than
>>> > membership numbers alone to measure participation?
>>> >
>>> > I'm only asking questions. I really don't have any answers. I wish I
>>> did.
>>> >
>>> > Detlef
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Sir Lyonel <sirlyonel at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Salut cozyns,
>>> >>
>>> >
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>Hwæt! We Gardena         in geardagum,
>þeodcyninga,         þrym gefrunon,
>hu ða æþelingas         ellen fremedon.
>Oft Scyld Scefing         sceaþena þreatum,
>monegum mægþum,         meodosetla ofteah,
>egsode eorlas.         Syððan ærest wearð
>feasceaft funden,         he þæs frofre gebad,
>weox under wolcnum,         weorðmyndum þah,
>oðþæt him æghwylc         þara ymbsittendra
>ofer hronrade         hyran scolde,
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