<div dir="ltr">Hello, we recently started something similar, because some people even don't register and start sending FIAT and cryptocurrencies and expect nothing in return.<div>So we came up with some donor web page, it's still in alpha ( <a href="https://ivkaa.github.io/Progressbar-Donor-Web/">https://ivkaa.github.io/Progressbar-Donor-Web/</a> ).</div><div>Our main intent was for remote donors, who are not in our city or for ex-members, who've been colocated to different region/country and they have will to support us.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Tarek Ahmed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tarek.alsabagh@gmail.com" target="_blank">tarek.alsabagh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I agree with Arclight and I think our membership model at Cairo Hackerspace can categorize these members, if that is what you are looking for. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>At the Cairo Hackerspace we made three memberships that anyone can choose from or join all three. One of these memberships could fit the people you are talking about. Basically anyone who pays money, whether its a donation or paying for any of our non profit services, physical or virtual, is a member X. (We don't call them "X members" but use the X as a placeholder for whatever category name you choose for this type of membership.</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Keys are only handed over to trusted people. Another solution is that members can volunteer to open for other members without keys at specific times, you can read about it in the the link below. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You can read a summary of our model. Feel free to ask questions, suggest changes or give other opinions. </div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://www.cairohackerspace.org/post/159642257252/cmm" target="_blank">http://www.cairohackerspace.<wbr>org/post/159642257252/cmm</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tarek</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 23, 2017 5:02 PM, "Pavel Ruzicka" <<a href="mailto:ruza@ruza.eu" target="_blank">ruza@ruza.eu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-2054236341656646856quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I also agree with that. Handing out keys of our hackerspace to an<br>
unknown person is absolutely not acceptable.<br>
<br>
My question was if any hackerspace found a model of a membership without<br>
physical presence.<br>
<br>
ruza<br>
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On 07/23/2017 10:56 PM, Joshua Pritt wrote:<br>
> I agree with Arclight. You can accept donations from anyone and add<br>
> them to the mailing list, give them access to the wiki, etc. just not a<br>
> key to the place. You gotta hang out a few times to make sure we can<br>
> all be excellent to each other.<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Arclight <<a href="mailto:arclight@gmail.com" target="_blank">arclight@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div class="m_-2054236341656646856quoted-text">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:arclight@gmail.com" target="_blank">arclight@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> It's fairly straightforward: You can accept members from anywhere.<br>
> They can support you from Antarctica with donations if they want and<br>
> be on the mailing list/etc.<br>
><br>
> Key holder status is different. We treat our space like a home. You<br>
> have to physically be here and get to know us before we decide if we<br>
> would give you a key to our home.<br>
><br>
> Arclight<br>
> 23b Shop<br>
><br>
> On Jul 23, 2017 1:37 PM, "Pavel Ruzicka" <<a href="mailto:ruza@ruza.eu" target="_blank">ruza@ruza.eu</a><br>
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><br>
> Hello.<br>
><br>
> Does any hackerspace accept something like remote membership?<br>
><br>
> In our hackespace we have a rule that anybody who wants to<br>
> become a full<br>
> member (with all the rights like free access to a hackerspace)<br>
> has to<br>
> visit us personally few times to check compatibility between<br>
> existing<br>
> member community a and an applicant. If everything goes OK an<br>
> applicant<br>
> is accepted.<br>
><br>
> We are receiving membership requests from people all over the<br>
> globe we<br>
> have never seen and probably will never see.<br>
><br>
> How do you handle such request? Do you have any special type of<br>
> membership for them?<br>
><br>
> ruza<br>
> --<br>
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