<p dir="ltr">I don't like the idea of dues for ALE.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Corp sponsorship will have a corp message. If EFF wants to buy a round of drinks, I'm ok with that. Ditto for Redhat, Suse, Cannonical, and some others. If Microsoft wanted to buy a round of drinks and talk about opening up closed software, that would be interesting and a bit awkward.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 7, 2015 8:51 AM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Since recruiting membership is getting harder for Linux user groups, I think charging dues may be counter-productive. I can’t really think of any Linux group (that I have been associated with) doing this.<br>
As for corporate sponsors, Red Hat (and SUSE) would want to skew everything toward their distro for sure…<br>
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On 8/7/15, 5:38 AM, "<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> on behalf of Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>Corporate sponsors would probably be interested in paying in a little to help us out. It really isn't fair thay Jim is paying everything out of pocket. Maybe we should consider a dues structure, if we can find a way not to add to Jim's current workload.<br>
>System 76, emperor linux, redhat etc may already have funds set aside for enthusiast groups.<br>
>Are the expenses disclosed anywhere we could see them and has there ever been a "business plan" that would layout future expenses and possible interesting things to do?<br>
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>Wolf Halton<br>
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>> On Aug 5, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Phil Turmel <<a href="mailto:philip@turmel.org">philip@turmel.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I'm with JD on this. Static ads from reputable linux-oriented<br>
>> businesses are fine with me.<br>
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>>> On 08/04/2015 07:29 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
>>> Whoa there. Which website? What advertising? Something static from a<br>
>>> Linux aligned company - perhaps. Dynamic ads - NO WAY.<br>
>>><br>
>>> There is a reality here folks. We have monthly obligations to meet and<br>
>>> wouldn't it be nice to have a lite snack as some of the meetings? We<br>
>>> don't need much, but ... some minimal income from the right companies<br>
>>> wouldn't hurt.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Right now, Jim is paying these bills out of his pocket. I don't think<br>
>>> that is fair.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Am I completely out of line here? There are many Linux groups which<br>
>>> have multiple corporate sponsors. As long as they are aligned, I don't<br>
>>> see the issue.<br>
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