[P2P-F] couchsurfing becoming for-profit

Thu Sep 1 20:03:05 CEST 2011

Hi Brad,

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:48 PM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> seems to me that the "verified members" who paid into the
> organization, should either have the option of becoming part
> of the corporation or at least have their fees refunded...
>

Maybe there is even some judicial possibilities around it. And it
wouldn't surprise me if they (CS) have not even researched into that.

> its similar to arts-organizations (Rhizome is an online
> example), that for years, reap all the benefits of unpaid
> labour and then for a few corporate-institutional shekels,
> morph into the very privileged tyrants they
> initially/presumably despised
>

You have some more examples by the way? I found this one,
http://rhizome.org/about/ but it says it's non-profit?

Robin.

> /:b

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