[wlug_org] Re: [wellylug] Installfest hardware....

[Jethro Carr]

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On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 19:33, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> Fair Enough JamieD. Just a suggestion dude :-)
Don't worry, we forgive you :)
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> Obviously you feel very strongly about this, and given your background
> in the wellylug, this is an important opinion - which I certainly will
> listen to.
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> Also taking into account Brent's comments, it seems the sugggestion was
> not a particularly good one. Nevermind.
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> I guess my question is this, if the Wellylug and InstallFests are
> basically a non profit exercise (which incidentally I agree with), then
> does this make Wellylug essentially a social club? If Wellylug is in
> essence a social club then do we use activities of the WellyLug (such as
> InstallFests) to perpetuate social activities within the LUG? Is that a
> bad thing? Or is that a good thing?
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> I guess we are starting to see the points that Colin made (LOL). As
> Jethro suggested we could put it aside for a rainy day - but then where
> do we put the money? In a bank account? - Whose? And if we spend the
> money on assets - then who owns them?

How do other societys do it?
Currently the lug owns a portable hard drive, but that's all the assets
I'm aware of.

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> As an aside, donation might be a nice way to solve the problem (at least
> from a moral perspective). But I guess some of the issues above also
> apply. But maybe it should just be free. This would avoid a lot of the
> hassles.=20
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Donations are good, as they allow people to give money to help us, and
it's not composary. If someone has a 2 hour install, they will probley
feel gratefull to the installer, and a donation is a cheap, and usefull
way,to say thanks.


I feel that any event outside of the lug, even if it is by lug members,
should be payed for by the people attending. eg: curry night - some
people (like me) hate curry, and would not want wellylug funds going
towards it.

Lug money should be spent on something to benfit all members, which is
linux or computer related. (eg: portable hard disk to store images,
comercial webhosting (if we didn't have Ewen), etc)


Man, I just love a great debate, ;)

PS:
Meeting events sound good. Jamie, you might want to list the meeting
events on the site (I've listed the reg engine demo).


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-- Jethro

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