Dear John, I have stopped paying my subscription to AFFS when it failed to invite members to an AGM. As far as I remember it was a requirement for AFFS to hold at least one annual meeting. So the situation might be really tricky in legal terms. I also have not received any information from AFFS until August 2006 (when my postal address changed) and I have not received a confirmation that my address update sent to [email protected] has been acted upon. I have never received a reminder about outstanding subscription fees and I never received a letter that my membership has come to an end. So, frankly, I don't know if I'm still a member with outstanding fees or no member anymore.
All the best, Marc 2009/2/27 John¹ <[email protected]> > If there are any of the subscribing members of the AFFS reading this > mailing list, then I would like to make the following suggestions, > > a) that we ask someone who has experience of the AFFS finance and bank > account, to clarify the position of the account, and make what ever > arrangements are necessary to release the funds therein. I do not think > that it would be inappropriate to offer an honorarium to whoever manages > to sort out, as above, the financial aspects of what is left of the AFFS, > co-opting Mark Ray would seem to be the most expeditious method of doing > this, > and, > b) return those donations that are conditional to their original donors, if > possible, (I seem to recall that at the meting I attended in Birmingham > that someone had donated £1000.00, which I'm sure they can find a suitable > recipient or use for), > having done that, > c) disburse any remaining funds to some suitable body, the FSFE seems to me > to be the most suitable, > then, > d) the remaining members either wind up the AFFS, or re-launch it with a > more flexible, democratic, simple rule book, or simply not pay our next > years subscription and let the AFFS fade into the sunset. > > However notwithstanding the foregoing, I will continue to pay my > subscription, and thus retain my membership until such time as I am > satisfied that the AFFS monies have either been returned from whence they > came or properly disposed of. As at the moment I seem to be the only > surviving member who has any interest in this matter I hereby volunteer to > act a Secretary to the AFFS, until such time as the remaining members make > their wishes known to me. > > I can be contacted at the above email address, or at my home address, > 'Fasgadh' > Errogie > Inverness > Inverness-shire > IV2 6UH > -- > John Seago > GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsfe-uk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk > -- ________________________________________________________ email: [email protected], [email protected] web: http://www.aston.ac.uk/~eberhama/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
