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

Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> 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.
>
Ha! Correction follows: 2 * 64 = 128, so the Post Office Box rent is
$128.00 per annum.

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