> > 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.
Then should it be something that is done?
I mean marketing in a fairly loose sense, after all if the aim is to get
paid up members then maybe we should go out there looking for them.
> 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.
Sorry I can't say that I was. Like I said my new little beastie is
taking up a lot of my computing time. Any chance of brief recap, or a
pointer to when this was disussed on the list so I can catch up.
> > 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*! ]
Great !!!, but round about the time I signed up this was be spruiked as
one of benefits, Slug members would getting to fests/events half price.
>
> > 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".
This I accept, and really $25.00 + GST isn't really going to be missed,
but one may still ask the question what the $25.00 gets them, other a
peice of papaer and voting rights.
>
> 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.
>
Will these change be put to a vote ?
It would also be helpful for this info to be online, the site seems to
be missing this sort of stuff. Also I remember last year at the AGM that
a member was asking for financials to be published, and the president
(Conrad) agreed, this sort of transparency still doesn't exist :(
Kind Regards
Mehmet Ozdemir
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