PASS Pro Memberships for deserving people

I just bought seven PASS Pro Memberships, and will give most of them away.

I will be inviting my community (starting with the Adelaide Data & Analytics User Group that I run, but open to everyone) to nominate anyone they feel should benefit by my giving them a year of PASS Pro Membership. You can’t nominate yourself – I want you to think of people who have been made redundant recently, or who generally have a harder time in life than others. Lots of people have lots of struggles, and if you know someone, then I invite you to nominate them. Do that by emailing me at “rob at lobsterpot.com.au” and making case for them. I have to get you to make a case for them, because I don’t know how many nominations I will get, and I can’t afford to buy one for everyone. I will choose who gets them, and it will be completely subjective – I have no idea what criteria I will use to select the people yet.

There will be no strings attached in either direction on these giveaways. If someone is unable to receive one because they are a government employee or whatever, then it’s up to them to turn it down. If there are taxes or something owed because of it, then that’s also on the recipient. Also, PASS have their own terms and conditions on having a PASS Pro Membership, which the recipient would need to agree to, and they will need to become a PASS member (the free level) before they can receive it.

The idea for this came from a conversation I was in with some people who were looking into giving away a ticket to this year’s PASS Virtual Summit to someone in their community. I mentioned that my preferred way of finding a deserving person is via a nomination process. And I figured that as I would normally be sponsoring my local group by buying pizza for the attendees, I could spend the money in a different way, and direct it to people who need it, rather than just people who want pizza. And I think the PASS Pro Membership is at a level where I can give to more people.

So have a think, and email me about people, telling me why they should get one. Maybe put “PASS Pro Membership nomination” and the person’s name in the subject line, so that I can spot them more easily.