[UK-TUG] membership fees:, Institutional members

[Joseph Wright]

On 07/12/2017 14:10, Jay Hammond wrote:
> Re membership fees:
> 
> Does UKTUG want institutional members? IOP? LMS? CUP?  OU?? If so, we 
> would have to offer them special rates (and perhaps not supply them with 
> DVD's, just a download link?) It should bring us more members and more 
> money, so we have some motivation. UKTUG used to do it.
> 
> It's certainly going to be an effort to sell such a package. As the 
> committee (and any volunteers they recruit to the process) would have to 
> do the work, I'd like to hear from them whether they think it achievable 
> and worthwhile.
> 
> Does the current membership list offer any insight?  Do we have e.g. 
> lots of OU members? A high proportion of the LMS team signed up? What 
> would the economics look like? - losing individual memberships and 
> gaining institutional ones?
> 
> Jay Hammond

For those who are members of TUG, the editorial in the latest TUGboat 
touches on the same area: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-3/tb120pres.pdf

Joseph