Hi John and Ian, Agreed, it seemed like there was some discussion around fees for members some months ago after the NCF $$ hand-over.
If Dianne is volunteering to help with this, I think we would be foolish to not accept such an offer. Dianne, if you need any help, please let me know. Btw Ian, do you still have that snazzy license plate? -Katie ________________________________ From: Nash JC - NCF <[email protected]> Sent: 25 January 2024 18:10 To: Katherine Mcmillan <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Ian! D. Allen <[email protected]> Cc: Linux-Ottawa <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration Attention : courriel externe | external email As far as I am aware, there's no intent that Linux-Ottawa folk should have to pay for joining a mailing list. There was a note in one earlier post (some months ago) that NCF had some legacy setup that restricted some of their facilities to "members" and that we might have to sort out details. JN On 2024-01-25 16:54, Katherine Mcmillan wrote: > I am in agreement with JF > > Sincerely, > Katie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jean-Francois Messier <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:50:33 PM > *To:* Ian! D. Allen <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Linux-Ottawa <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration > *Attention : courriel externe | external email* > I would call this a MAJOR obstacle. If Freenet/NCF is hoping to get money > from everyone joining this list on an annual > basis, although OCLUG gave them thousands of dollars already, we should > dissociate from Freenet/NCF. The decision to > send the money to NCF was an honest mistake, but let's not keep our > dependency on NCF. Who knows what else they will ask > from the members in the future ? > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 4:37 PM Ian! D. Allen <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Re: > > - Yes, I'd call it an obstacle > - I agree [...] Is not going to work. > - I agree. While the money is not a problem for me it is sort of > offensive. > > The new person joining does not have to pay this fee. Imagine this: > > "Hello and welcome to OCLUG. We have teamed up with the local Free-Net > to sponsor a mailing list account for you so that you may participate > in discussions around Linux and other Free-Libre Open Source Software > [FLOSS]. We hope that at some point you become a paid-up member of > OCLUG to help support this and other FLOSS projects. Welcome aboard." > > -- > | Ian! D. Allen, BA-Psych, MMath-CompSci [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> Ottawa CANADA > | Home: www.idallen.com<http://www.idallen.com> <http://www.idallen.com> > Contact Improvisation Dance: www.contactimprov.ca<http://www.contactimprov.ca> > <http://www.contactimprov.ca> > | Former college professor of Free/Libre GNU+Linux @ teaching.idallen.com > <http://teaching.idallen.com> > | Improve democracy www.fairvote.ca<http://www.fairvote.ca> > <http://www.fairvote.ca> and defend digital freedom > www.eff.org<http://www.eff.org> <http://www.eff.org> > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to [email protected] > <mailto:linux%[email protected]> > To get help send a blank message to [email protected] > <mailto:linux%[email protected]> > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > <https://lists.linux-ottawa.org> > > > > -- > Geek, c'est ma nature > Linux, c'est mon choix ! To unsubscribe send a blank message to [email protected] To get help send a blank message to [email protected] To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
