On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Larry Lampert wrote:
part of our mission, I think giving Gomberg life
status cheapens what has been done for Neil and
Dorothy. I would not have a problem with not charging
him dues but the "life member" status should be
reserved for those who truly gave of themselves not
for those who .....
Very interesting point. This is why I want the discussions on this
list!!!
That said, I'm not sure that it's quite the same thing. In voting Neil
and Dorothy as life members, it's something we will (I'm sure) mention in
TAG and possibly on the website, as was mentioned when Jare was made a
fellow right before he passed away.
If we view a life membership for Gomberg as a similar honorary thing, then
in my opinion, Larry's analysis seems dead-on. It's not appropriate.
Hmm, so OK, an alternative is to examine it as isntead a strictly
financial decision, a life membership to a business in exchange for goods
or services. How much equivalent cash is it worth? Maybe $200-300? Would
we offer Dave $300 for all rights to PAM? Would that help us sell $300
more in PAMs in our stock? A suggestion I made (alas in that other more
private list) was that if a deal were struck to have "free reign", one
result, perhaps the ONLY result, might be bundling the two out-of-print
issues as a CD along with the six remaining printed issues. To give an
idea of scale, we sold around $1000 worth of PAM stuff last year, and
maybe $1500 worth in 2003. Would the addition of the two other issues in
electronic form (one of which is already free on Gomberg's website) boost
sales? I don't really know.
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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