[aklug] Re: [aklug-ops] Re: How to Make a Contribution to AKLUG

Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>> afaikt, Fielder is addresslng the issue of supporting the overhead of
>> AKLUG now, i.e. how or where to send $$. Aklugs corporate status is
>> firmly in place and has been for a few? years.
>
> You're right, it has been around for years, but do we have any significant
> accomplishments from it that we can all see that the expense was worth it?
>
>> I don't mind revisiting issues from time to time, it is a healthy
>> practise. It seems to me Arthur, you want to revisit our corporate
>> status.
>
> You're absolutely right. If we're actually doing something useful with that
> status then I'd like to help support it. But if we're not doing something
> useful I think it's disingenuous to recruit more lemmings to dive off the
> cliff. Especially with today's economy. If AKLUG is not viable (as a legal
> entity, obviously it's just fine as a group), why continue? Stop the
> madness.
>
>> All Fielder, and other officers have said is how to support our current
>> structure.
>
> And offered not one tidbit of information when I nicely asked what the
> benefits of maintaining it were. Not *one* response from anyone offering
> ways to glean donations. Why should any of us want to support an opaque
> group of individuals who want to operate in our name but offer no visibility
> into the whys, wherefores, and whatnots?
>
>> {puts on tinfoil hat}
>> Nobody has to donate anything. Unless we change the bylaws to try and
>> EXclude folks :-)
>
> :-) Your humor makes my point. Refusing to answer simple (or any)
> questions "EXclude"s all the folks that aren't part of the legal cabal.
>
> Once again: they can my financial support, but not blindly, not carte
> blanche. I've paid for several AKLUG activities in the past and I could
> always see what good came of it. I've been shut out of seeing what good
> has come of this, here.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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Greetings all,

I see the thread is alive and well. I will a note a point or two:

1. The marginal financial cost of continuing the corporate structure for
the Alaska Linux Users Group is $7.50 per annum.

2. The basic financial cost of a business license in the state of Alaska
is $100.00 per annum regardless of the business form, eg.: corporation,
partnership, or sole proprietorship. Furthermore, any association, such
as a bunch of geeks who get together once a month or so, need a business
license to conduct business within the state of Alaska.

3. The basic financial cost of a box at one of the US Post Office
Stations is $164.00 per annum.

4. Jim Gribbin, acting for the members of the Alaska Linux Users Group,
has spent close to $200.00 of his own money since, repeat _SINCE_, the
big election of 2007 where Mike Barsalou stood for president and won in
a landslide.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards       Debian/GNU Linux
Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm        "etch" Testing
dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska   User Number 269482
Since 1976 - Over 30 Years of Service.       "irad" 301256
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