[HCoop-Discuss] comments on payment schemes

[Justin S. Leitgeb]

Adam Chlipala wrote:

>Justin S. Leitgeb wrote:
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>>So, we would have a 
>>"dues stabilization fund" that would hopefully be around until we had 
>>enough members to bring rates back to a reasonable rate for everyone.
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>Do you not consider my proposal (the subject of the "experiment" I 
>announced) to be an instance of the kind of thing you're describing?
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Perhaps, but I would just want to make sure that in the future (i.e., 
after the temporary dues stabilization period is over), we change from 
having dues set to just cover operating costs to something that includes 
a budget for repairs and upgrades.  I would agree with your plan (except 
for the rather trivial exception that I don't like the idea of 
membership "shares", preferring "pledge amounts" or "one-time donations" 
instead), if dues only drop to a certain point, and then level off to 
include room for repairs and upgrades in the future. 

Sorry if you explained this before, but I wanted to be perfectly clear 
since I didn't see this explicitly written on the "experiment" page.