[DM-MUG] DMMUG's consideration of Dues

[AB]

Thanks Victoria. Sounds like a good compromise to me.

-Angela

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com> wrote:

> From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] DMMUG's consideration of Dues
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 4:33 PM
> I'm in a breakfast club and we have
> Regular members who pay dues and 
> Non-Resident members etc.  The NRs pay much
> less.  It does seem to 
> make some sense to have a small amount of money from
> everyone so 
> everyone has a stake in the group.  Not sure how we'd
> police it = I 
> guess we'd do it on the honor system = everyone pays either
> Regular 
> or NR dues and if you don't pay, you'll be sad but we're
> not going to 
> police it = other than we could post non payers on the
> web!  [joke]
> 
> I like the mini-presentation and roundtable ideas..the
> problem will 
> be finding topics and people to contribute.  We did
> try this awhile 
> ago and can again.  But it's necessary to have a Topic
> = maybe we 
> could assign one general topic to each month = i.e.,
> Free/Shareware 
> in Feby., Maintenance in Jan, Networking another month
> etc.  Then we 
> can ask for volunteers = I am getting inquiries from
> vendors who want 
> to do presentations or iChats with us...there are resources
> out 
> there, but some do cost $$$.
> 
> Not to mention that whoever puts together programs has to
> take time 
> to do it = and getting info on the web requires Dave
> McLaughlin's 
> scheduling and abilities, we don't want to impose too much
> on him.
> 
> As a lawyer I have a Trust account and have to maintain it
> even if 
> there is -0- money in it and I'm not doing that much these
> days. 
> It wouldn't be a great problem if everyone sent $$ to me,
> I'll put it 
> in the Trust Acct. in an account for DMMUG and provide an
> accounting 
> to the list and then we'll have a kitty.]
> 
> Because of my schedule, if people are going to contribute
> and if 
> Bryan is going to renew the name, we need the contributions
> no later 
> than July 24th [Friday before renewal is due].
> 
> Send your contributions [I suggest at least $10 for Regular
> and $3-5 
> for contributory non members.  That would be good
> through the end of 
> this year and we could revisit the topic in January. 
> And if you want 
> to send more, feel free.
> 
> My address
> 4331 Greenwood Drive #100
> Des Moines, IA 50312
> 
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