Nick, > Look thats good David. The point I was really trying to make > is that we > do not need to be scared of making something more than break > even. Most > charities exist to push profits from commercial ventures into > charitable > aims. The provision of courses should IMHO be viewed as commercial or > semi-commercial ventures to subsidise other activities & overheads.
Fair enough. We could certainly do with a bit more money to keep the OSTC going for longer than another month. Especially since my wife will be giving birth in a couple of months, so I won't have as much money to pump in to the OSTC to keep it open. I have been considering running the first course for somewhere between $300 and $400 for CLUG members. This course would be used to evaluate our readiness to offer the course to the general public for a bit more money. After this 'evaluation' course, hopefully the participants would sit the exam. If there was a good pass rate, then we know we are ready. There might be some things we need to adjust before the course gets offered to the public. > NZ education seems to have gone down the path of charging everyone the > same, but addressing social differences via loans and such like. how > much that philosphy should affect the OTSC is obviously for > debate, and > probably OT this list. > > Thanks for listening to my ranting. I think any other posts related to this side of things should be directed to the OSTC list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Later David Kirk
