I figure that the odd bits of advice and help and support are worth the
money many times over. No problem about the cost. I paid once last year,
lost my card, don't care, and neither does slug. If I get asked for more
money this year, that's cool too.
Having said that, if you take money, organise meetings, etc, etc... you
really DO have an obligation to keep the books. Surely some where in this
conglomeration of computing talent, someone knows how to keep a spread
sheet. Can't be that hard. Nothing clever. Just a spread sheet.
I don't care if the money goes to charity, tea & biscuits, or new server
equipment for slug.org.au, so long as we know who pays and where it goes.
And even when my membership has to be paid next. I don't go to many
meetings, and obviously the same is true of many others.
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote:
> > 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 :(
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