On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:01:40PM +1000, David wrote:
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> 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.
No, SLUG does care. We simply weren't in a position to sell memberships
for a large portion of the year.
> 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.
Actually the answer is no.
Surprising isn't it?
For the last two years we have no one with this mystical 'spread sheet talent'
sally forth and say "Yes, I'll be the Slug treasurer".
Instead it seems to be sort of a 'bum steer' job. This, I expect,
things to be different for a number reasons, amongst them:
- we know where our new treasurer lives
- he is also the treasurer for UNSW CompSoc
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> 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.
You should care. I presented a brief overview of what I thought was an
accurate summary of our finances at the AGM. We have/are in the process of
reviewing them as fast as possible and hope to have anproperly accurate
picture (in fact we must in order to re-submit an application to the
department of fair trades) by the end of the month.
Naturally this will be publically available; perhaps it should be
presented at next month's meeting? Or would our finances be too dry a topic?
> 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.
A good question on membership expirary. When ou read the consitution,
hidden at <URL: http://www.slug.org.au/model.shtml> what does it say?
It certainly isn't crystal clear to me -- hence we are having a small
sub-committee look at clearing up ambiguities and making the constituion
simpler to comply with.
If you are interested in helping out perhaps you could email Chris Collins,
Craig McWhirter or Jeff Waugh your thoughts?
I'm looking forward to hearing further from you.
Anand
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