How does membership work?
CLUG Membership works as follows. If you attend a meeting, join the mailing list, attend an event or otherwise make it known to the CLUG Secretary that you wish to join CLUG, you are a Tier 1 member. You may use the Executive Contact Form to do this. There are no fees associated with becoming a Tier 1 member. You can, however, purchase a $20 per year Tier 2 membership which entitles you to voting privileges and discounts some of our Sponsors. Check the Sponsors page for further details on where your CLUG membership card will get you a discount.

Why pay?
What we are trying to build is a self-sustaining organization. It was felt by a majority of the members that in order to do so, we had to incorporate ourselves as a Society. There are fees associated with any dealings with Government so we had to build a Treasury. In order to put money in our coffers, we decided to charge a nominal fee but we didn't want to alienate any of our members so we came up with the two Tier system we have now. We have tried to elicit support from local businesses in the way of discounts to make our membership more appealling but the main reason is to follow standard practices suggested by the Government and that means we need to account for our membership and give our members voting privileges.

CLUG's operating expenses are fairly low but from time to time we do need to pay for things like power / networking at trade shows, web hosting, etc. Previously these expenses were often covered by individuals but as we grow larger it makes sense for CLUG to be able to cover itself.

CLUG also tries to promote itself so from time to time we get advertising materials printed and such things cost money also.

Is there a fee for attending the meetings?
No. Anyone can attend meetings at no charge.