Membership Inquiries

The bienvenidos committee is in charge of responding emails that are sent to the following address: membership@urbansoil.net, all members of the committee receive the emails and there is one person in charge of responding or making sure someone responds the inquiries.

Some suggestions and resources for responding emails sent to membership@urbansoil.net below:

Don’t forget to CC the membership committee when responding emails to keep us all in the loop.

Resources

• The bienvenidos committee receives emails through a mailing list, that way any inquiry is that is sent to membership@urbansoil.net is automatically redirected to laev-membership@googlegroups.com so a group of people is in the loop about inquiries. This increases transparency, keeps an archive, and makes the job of responding emails easier. If you want to see the archive or change other settings of your subscription (like receiving a daily digest instead) go to: http://groups.google.com/group/laev-membership
• InProcessHidden - List of people currently in the process. You can also add people to this page when the fill the questionnaire and add the questionnaire here (note that you need to enter your password) to see this page.
• Some links to pages that you might want to visit or recommend when replying emails:
  • http://urbansoil.net/membership - Brief overview about becoming a member
  • http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/Membership_Process_Annotated - Annotated version of the membership process, it includes a diagram and explanations of different stages.
  • http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/Questionnaire - The initial questionnaire

A sample initial response:

Hi (insert name of interested person),

Thanks for your interest. my name is (insert your name), I’m part of the
bienvenidos committee, that is the committee in charge of helping
people interested in becoming members, membership is a prerequisite
for residency.

If you haven’t read it, there is a brief overview of the process here:
http://urbansoil.net/membership
And here you can find a detailed view:
http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/Membership_Process_Annotated

Please read them both carefully.

We call the first part of our process the “interested” phase, and the
idea is that you get to know us as well as you can at your on pace.
Here is a list of things that you can start doing:

• Explore and read our websites http://urbansoil.net and
  http://www.laecovillage.org/
• Read the membership process at
  http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/Membership_Process_Annotated
• Ask any questions you might have

once you have done that let us know and we’ll work on the next steps:
filling the questionnaire and coming to a community meeting .

thanks!

Please feel free to add any comments or useful resources for those who will be responding emails in the future

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