<quote who="Mehmet Ozdemir">
> DISCLAIMER:
> I'm coming in at the tail end of this so I just shoot my mouth off
Ah, rats. I spent all of my niceness on my previous post. ;)
> Jeff while making sly references may seem all good and well, it does
> reflect on the organisations marketing ability.
Marketing is not really what we do. Things like the SLUG stand at the
recent business expo (thank you Chris and others), our regular installfests
and the national one we participated in last year represent our... hmm...
outreach to people beyond SLUG.
> Since joining I haven't received any
> acknowledgement at all, no reminder to renew my membership.
Hopefully you were tuned in to the troubles we've had with our business
documents and bank account - if we had had a list of members, we would
certainly have done more with it.
During the last committee meeting (the first for the new group) we discussed
setting up a private site for the committee to store the member list, etc...
Now that we have one.
> I would also like to ask the of the slug comittee do you actually have a
> list of members and email addresses phone number etc,
We do now; at least a list of names. We will hopefully be modifying the
constitution to pull it out of the dark ages and give us a little more
flexibility in this regard.
> also when fest are
> organised do you actually enforce the discounts to only payed up members
> (ie proof of membership required) ???
Been to a fest recently?
[ Read: DISCOUNTS?! They're *FREE*! ]
> If these thing are done then why would anyone bother.
I can answer for myself: a) It pleases me to support the continued existence
of a great group that has brought me out of the horrid darkness of
proprietary software, and b) it allows me to vote, and also have at least
some claim to being a "SLUGger".
We're doing what we can to patch up a few uglinesses (the constitution), and
thankfully we now have all our documents and business in order; hope I've
answered all your queries and explained why things have been the way they
have.
- Jeff
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You'll see what I mean.
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