Hi
> Very true.... to illustrate the point -> during the meeting on 9th of May,
1999, I managed to collect Rs. 1700 for our
> domain registration funds from the members, the collection of the
remaining Rs. 1500 took me more than two months to
> gather together, not to say anything about the innumerable phone calls to
the people who had pledged to contribute,
> numerous reminder emails, number of visits to people's places to collect
the money. Let me tell you it was no easy task,
> particularly if approached in an unstructured, ad-hoc manner. And on top
of that unless everything is documented in
> absolute black-and-white, questions may arise about the handling of the
money and the integrity of the people involved.
Yes, you are right , all of us are busy with our own work and we cannot
expect anybody to spend all his time just chasing members for their
subscription fee. Chasing peolpe also does come at a very heavy cost
phone, email , visit and not to talk about the time spend ). Who will bear
the cost of chasing ?
The only way out that I can see is to scrap the idea of subscriptions and
build up fund by voluntary contributions from willing members. But again
the question of accountability and transparency arises , for which i think
we need to register ourselves as a society.
Indra, if i remember correctly you were talking about a uniform constitution
for all the local LUGs in India. In the last meeting you had said that it
was in the draft stage, what is its status now ?
>
> They do at times.... for example Manash contributed his share when he came
to Calcutta to attend LI- '99... Making the
> collections from IITKGP could perhaps be handled as like JU there can be
someone of our group to take care of it
> locally. Anyway, AFAIK there are just about 3 members from KGP on the
list....
I had used IIT KGP just as an example, what i meant was that we have many
members who dont stay in Calcutta how do we manage to collect money from
them ( unless they send a Money Order/Draft/Cheque etc own their own).
-rutvik
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