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<div style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Museums tend to use the language "suggested donation" for admission. They may look at you funny, but they'll let you on for a buck if that's what you donate.</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com">Mark Janssen</a></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-weight:bold">Sent:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ý12/ý20/ý2013 3:17 PM</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-weight:bold">Subject:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Re: [hackerspaces] Classes and Liability</span><br>
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<div class="PlainText">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Bob Bownes <bownes@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> Just beware, it has to be a real donation. Just because you call it a<br>
> donation, it may not pass the smell test that the courts will apply. They<br>
> are surprisingly good at identifying an attempt to evade a law and calling a<br>
> spade a spade.<br>
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Perhaps better than "donation", you should say "by voluntary<br>
contribution". That means that you have to allow people to<br>
participate without giving the full amount and without intimidation.<br>
(That goes both ways: people can't just exploit the service and try to<br>
get a free ride). That's the only sniff test there is: if you say<br>
"donation" and then refuse them at the door for giving only 10% of the<br>
amount, then you're misusing language and the implied contract that it<br>
entails.<br>
-- <br>
MarkJ<br>
Tacoma, Washington<br>
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