Re: July AIS Bulletin for Emembers

[John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

The E-Membership was added to the AIS By-Laws by a vote of the AIS membership in 2011 as a new class :

"Electronic membership shall be the same as other forms of memberships with the exception that an e-member shall not receive the bulletin in a printed form but shall have access to it electronically. This e-membership may also include other electronic services which are unique to it. Members may choose to have both e-membership and another form of membership to receive both printed and electronic services. Holding two types of membership shall not duplicate voting privileges. E-members shall also receive the new member's packet and other information electronically. Electronic-membership shall be renewable annually"

The online registration database, irisregister, has been, from its inception, a service that was paid for separately from any AIS Membership class. It was, in fact, not a class of AIS Membership, Specifically, AIS Life Members were not given gratis subscriptions to irisregister. Irisregister has never been funded from the AIS General Fund, rather it was funded from the Electronic Services Restricted Fund (ESRF). The ESRF was initially funded by revenue from the Geek Dinner auction which in tern funded the initial development if irisregister. Since then the irisregister fees have covered its own costs and provided additional funding for other electronic services projects and enhancements.

To provide a basis of value for the AIS E-Membership irisregister was made part of the E-Membership. The then current subscribers to irisregister were made AIS E-Members. The subscription fee for irisregister had been $10.00 per year since it was made a paid-for service in September of 2003. In light of that and that the Board wished to enhance e-services with the addition of more electronic content, the Board set the annual fee for E-Membership at $15.00. No discounts for multiple year subscriptions were established.

E-Memberships were determined, per the By-Laws, to be AIS Memberships for the purpose of qualifying for an individual judgeship, the concomitant privilege of voting the AIS Awards Ballot and other requirements for membership (e.g., serving in any AIS position requiring previous AIS Membership).

Other than the issues mentioned above, there is no overlap between E-Memberships and the traditional (print) memberships.

John

On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:27 AM, CEMahan@aol.com wrote:

> As an honorary life member of AIS I would like to protest the Board's action!
> What logic could deny regular AIS members a service provided for email
> members; Surely the by-laws do not permit such discrimination. Clarence Mahan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>
> To: aisdiscuss <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
> Sent: Sun, Jul 29, 2012 8:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] July AIS Bulletin for Emembers
> 
> 
> Hi Fran,
> 
> Yes, that is the policy set by the board. (I just want you to know that it is
> not me that sets the policy).
> 
> The electronic membership was set up to allow those individuals that did not
> care to receive the hard copy bulletin to have access to the e-bulletin as a
> benefit in addition to having access to the irisregister database. It does
> cost
> money to maintain the e-member services. and while the rest of the website is
> available to anyone, it was decided that AIS needed to charge for the
> additional
> e-member services.
> 
> You can, of course, have both types of memberships.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Jul 29, 2012, at 7:35 AM, Fran & Henry Day wrote:
> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So if we are a regular AIS member (not an emember),B  we are not able to
>> access the scanned AIS bulletins?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Fran Day
>> 
>> RVP, Region 23
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>> 
>> From: "John Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
>> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
>> Cc: iris@hort.net, "iris-photos" <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>, "sibrob
>> sibrob" <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:46:20 AM
>> Subject: [AISdiscuss] July AIS Bulletin for Emembers
>> 
>> The July 2012 AIS Bulletin in electronic format is now available for AIS
>> Emembers to view in the Emembers section of the AIS Website.
>> 
>> John
>> _____________________________
>> John Jones
>> Director, American Iris Society
>> Chair, Electronic Services Committee
>> Co-Registrar/Recorder
>> 
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