I've been working with NGOs for years. The board need not be paid staff. You just need one paid person doing all the admin/secretariat stuff. The rest can continue to work as volunteers.
Regards to all, Obet Verzola On Wednesday 31 October 2007 08:50:28 Holden Hao wrote: > > That's one of the reason why I never ever wanted to form a formal group > > ... but since it's there, it's there. > > Don't take me wrong...I do appreciate that PLUG has changed into a > > structured organization, but to get a formal group going, you need > > dedicated people, sys ads, people who experiment, but geeks (no insult > > intended) are not that kind of people. -- I mean dedicated to > > administrative...they'd > > This is somewhat true and I am frustrated that you can't even bother > some board members to make decisions and vote with a "yes" or a "no" > to resolutions submitted via the board list. However, I believe that > with a structured organization PLUG can achieve more and grow from > just being a mailing list. > > I believe that to make PLUG grow, we need a professional management > team to manage its operations. PLUG can function as an NGO and manage > its day to day operations and projects (FOSS conferences, advocacies, > boot camps, etc.) . However, the management team needs to be paid. > The organization needs to be able to get seed funding in order to > establish its foundation. This can be done through donations, > sponsorships, or through an income generating activity. The only > problem we have now is that who can spare the time to do all this at > the start. > > > > Holden > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
