With us closing doors tomorrow night how is billing going to work
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I guess we could do the unthinkable and pay our dues to support the community…
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Devils advocate here. Suspending drafts and letting people pay a donation if they can may be a fiscally sound option and help with some goodwill/PR. I pay my dues monthly despite usable time at the space being weeks of the year with my current treatment protocols. Pretty solid on the concept I pay them for the community I want to see continue, not because I can use them.
This is an unprecedented level of WTF. I’m on a monthly pay cycle and my district is closed indefinitely. The board meeting to decide if I get paid or not isn’t until the end of the week. It’s possible I’ll get a big middle finger and the six weeks w/o pay will become god knows how long. My husband who is hourly is already reduced at his job…and we are lucky because I probably will be paid eventually. Some industries are laying off indefinitely and immediately because their business can’t absorb the loss. Refusal to visit the idea of suspended dues means a lot of people on regular membership becoming starving hackers.
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I am going to keep paying mine.
I want a makerspace when the epidemic is over.
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I paid for the year and I’m good with it.
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Same here.
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I’m paying mine and going for the future
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Monthly members can cancel anytime. Hopefully enough folks stay the course though. Undoubtedly some businesses and organizations will go under during this pandemic.
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Mine will continue unabated, earlier discussions notwithstanding. Thanks for letting me simmer it back down, J.
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I will keep mine active as well, that kinda goes without saying.
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Letting mine ride
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Staying the distance
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Not sure how I’m going to stay out of trouble though while we are closed.
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bearded man running rampant around town repairing things at random without permission
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I don’t think my question was worded right I guess because I was only wondering if there was a plan if we couldn’t come to the makerspace for weeks to longer sorry
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There’s nothing stopping members from donating their dues as usual if they’re able to. Obviously given my green dot I’ve let mine ride well before this. I also acknowledge that’s a privilege some may not have for a short while and we don’t have an option like honorarium to help them. The bad taste of “you couldn’t stay the course for a month so sucks to be you” has a decent possibility of losing members entirely. We have many passive members who believe in DMS as a family/community atmosphere instead of a corporation. They pay because of the spirit and are fiscally a net positive. Showing lack of empathy to how they’re affected in a hot zone is a great way to turn members into clients who only pay when it’s good for them.
I said nothing like what you’re saying. You’re reading things into my post that simply aren’t there.
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Just keep paying your dues people!!! You would still have been paying if it was open!!! I LOVE THE MAKERSPACE!!! even when it has to close for reasons beyond our control! 
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The struggle is real. Lol. I took this week off to spend with my kids on their spring break. Normally by day 3 I’m wanting to get out of the house. I’ll probably go fix my sisters sink tomorrow.
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I’ll stay the course, I don’t know everyone at makerspace but its fun to run into familiar faces and chat and learn. Its worth more than just tool access to me.
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