NetHeads, Somebody brought up the issue of selling KRnet stickers to raise money for KRnet administration and the KR Gathering "seed" money. KRnet is caught up for the moment, and the Gathering had a good bit left over from last year (thanks to Linda, Terry, and company), but I'd think that you could never have too much money "at the ready" for Gathering purposes, especially if one year turns into a gully washer and somebody gets stuck with some large bills.
Both Joe Horton and Orma Robbins have done some checking on prices and have come up with stickers that will cost somewhere around a dollar each. I'm not sure how serious you guys are about raising money in this manner, so I'm not sure what kind of price to put on them, or how many to order. I've asked Bob Lee to make up a "test-the-water" web page where folks can go and place their order, tell how many they want, and enter their mailing address. This way we'll have some idea on how many we need to order, and perhaps there will be a price break if we can order more than we think we need now. How about $4 each, $7 for two, or $10 for three? This would include postage, except overseas orders will have to have appropriate postage added, probably something like $5, depending on where it's going. This won't break anybody's bank, and has the potential to raise some "real" money. If we end up with more money than we need for the Gathering, we can stash it away for later, or maybe do something like buy a few used propellers from KR builders that need something different. Then these used props could be "rented" out for $50 or so to builders to see if maybe that prop is "right for you", or something like that. Then if you like the prop, you could buy it from the fund for whatever we have in it, or turn it back in and try another one. This is a service that I could see some real benefit from, and has the potential for saving you guys a lot of money on props, especially if you are a bad "guesser". It could also be a lifesaver for somebody that's stuck off in BFE with no prop, and there's one just like you need "in the fund", waiting for overnite delivery to you. I'm not volunteering to run this thing or to mail props, but I can see how I might end up doing it if some other folks don't volunteer. Just an idea. We'll need some volunteers to send these labels out. I don't know of ANYBODY that wants to mail 500 stickers out. If we sell 500, we'll need 10 guys will volunteer to stuff envelopes and mail them out. It ought to take less than an hour to send out 50 stickers (many will get 2 or 3 per envelope), and the fund will furnish the stamps (volunteer buys the envelopes). The stickers will probably be 3x3 and hopefully on a clear background, but might be white or black, don't know yet. There are some details still to be worked out. I need a volunteer to take our KRnet logo and doctor it up into a high res image. Robert Covington did it originally, but lost the original, so we're stuck with the very pixelated image that you see at http://www.krnet.org/gifs/krlogo.gif (unless somebody has a copy of it). Somebody needs to PhotoShop this thing into a smooth, respectable 300 dpi image to make the printers happy. I realize that it will just get shrunk down again, but that's what they want, and it would be nice to get this image off of life support. Bob hasn't done the ordering web page thing yet (I haven't really told him what we want), but when it's up and going I'll let you know. Volunteers should probably email me direct at the email address below. Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL email to: N56ML "at" hiwaay.net (swap "at" with @, no spaces) see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
