[ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org]

[Jim Kinney]

I don't like the idea of dues for ALE.

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.
On Aug 7, 2015 8:51 AM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> As for corporate sponsors, Red Hat (and SUSE) would want to skew
> everything toward their distro for sure…
> Just my $0.02 worth…
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> On 8/7/15, 5:38 AM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Wolf Halton" <
> ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
> >System 76, emperor linux, redhat etc may already have funds set aside for
> enthusiast groups.
> >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?
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> >Wolf Halton
> >Atlanta Cloud Technology
> >Broadening Your Vision to Broaden Your Reach
> >678-687-6104
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> >Sent from my iPhone. Creative word completion courtesy of Apple, Inc.
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> >> On Aug 5, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
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> >> I'm with JD on this.  Static ads from reputable linux-oriented
> >> businesses are fine with me.
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> >>> On 08/04/2015 07:29 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> >>> Whoa there.  Which website?  What advertising?  Something static from a
> >>> Linux aligned company - perhaps.  Dynamic ads - NO WAY.
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> >>> There is a reality here folks.  We have monthly obligations to meet and
> >>> wouldn't it be nice to have a lite snack as some of the meetings? We
> >>> don't need much, but  ... some minimal income from the right companies
> >>> wouldn't hurt.
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> >>> Right now, Jim is paying these bills out of his pocket. I don't think
> >>> that is fair.
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> >>> Am I completely out of line here?  There are many Linux groups which
> >>> have multiple corporate sponsors. As long as they are aligned, I don't
> >>> see the issue.
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