[Ambassadors] Fedora EMEA e.v. (was Re: What Fedora makes sucking ...)

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Felix Kaechele wrote:
> Max Spevack schrieb:
>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Robert Scheck wrote:
>>> Maybe the 128 Euro per year are the real issue. Maybe we should reduce
>>> to e.g. 12 Euro per year or similar, that people like me don't care
>>> about what happens with the (my) money.
>> That would be fine with me.  To be honest, I don't remember what the
>> original rationale was for setting the membership fee at 128.
> 
> Quoting Max Spevack from
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-May/msg00051.html
> 
> 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.
> 

If you feel like quoting, make sure you read my messages from the same 
thread.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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