[ale] Meetup renewal time

[Jim Lynch]

Or put it in your pocket as a very late partial payment for last time.

On 05/10/2016 09:18 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Another huge THANKS!!!
>
> We've met our goal of $90 and have $25 extra. Meetup will get paid on 
> time (and not all by me this time - my wife thanks you, too!)
>
> We have $25 in the hat. It can sit and wait for a need or ALE can find 
> a need.
>
> I'll start a thread on what could ALE do with funding.
>
> Again, many thanks for the generosity. ALE has always been a great 
> group of people.
>
> On May 9, 2016 9:25 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Many thanks to those that have stepped to support ALE with their
>     hard earned cash!
>
>     We are 2/3 of the way to the $90 needed. Just another $30 to go.
>
>     <puts on public broadcasting pledge drive voice>
>
>     This is your ALE. From mailing list support for newbies to
>     professional sysadmins alike to meetings in 3 (soon 4!) locations
>     for face to face interaction, interesting topics, ALE is a Linux
>     users group driven by your needs. That's what ALE has always done
>     - inform, educate, collaborate, and inspire.
>
>     For more than 2 decades ALE led the Linux revolution in the
>     Atlanta area and worldwide (mailing list members in several
>     countries and an article in a UK Linux magazine mentioned ALE with
>     a photo of yours truly holding a glass of ale). Many of the more
>     focused tech topic groups are (very) loosely tied through members
>     with ALE. It's almost like ALE had children that are all grown up
>     now <sniff ;-)>
>
>     As ALE provides support for your Linux collaboration needs, we
>     need your support for ALE. Usually, I'm asking for topics and
>     speakers but this time it's for your financial support.
>
>     Send your contribution to:
>
>     Paypal.me/drlinux1992
>
>     We need $30 more to meet our obligation to fund the meetup
>     account. We've had 5 members step up with generosity to get us to
>     $60 so far. A huge (HUGE!) thank you for that!
>
>     So take a short break from your regular Monday morning and support
>     ALE in whatever amount you choose.
>
>     </public broadcasting voice>
>
>     Hmm. I wonder if we could get Ira Glass to write a guilt filled
>     email.  :-}
>
>     Thanks everyone!
>
>     On May 6, 2016 8:54 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Next week, meetup.com <http://meetup.com> wants $90 for
>         another 6 months. Donations are welcome.
>
>         We have 800 people signed up and at least half were members of
>         more than 20 other groups at the time they joined ALE's meetup.
>
>         I am very happy to see people at meetings. Let's keep it going.
>
>         At this point, it looks like May will be an off month. June
>         will be a multiple person presentation covering various
>         virtualization and containerization tools by request. Plan to
>         be there or at least be ready for the debut of ALE live web
>         conferences!
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20160510/cc02375a/attachment.html>