[TriLUG] Financial Status (The pizza email)

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Brian Henning via TriLUG wrote:

o Pizza costs money, even if the lecture is free. I expect we can pay whatever 
it costs for pizza, $1.50-$2/slice. Asking for donations doesn't cover expenses. 
Someone from the SC is going to have to sit infront of the pizza line and handle 
the cash. There are people who like doing that.

o It costs to run the club. I'm happy to pay $10/yr.

How many people do we have in the club, say measured by the mailing list?

Someone in the SC has to keep track of memberships then. That's not trivial. Do 
you mail cards?

If we have paying members, what does a member get that a non-member misses out 
on? With everything free in TriLUG, there not much you can keep aside for paying 
members. (Anyone can come to meetings.)

 	x mailing list (rw)

 	x shell account on pilot (doesn't seem there's many who take advantage 
of this)

 	x Membership discounts at Intrex.

We used to have quite nice used gear sales. That used to be for members only. I 
haven't seen any of that for at least a decade.

Other than being a nice guy, there doesn't seem to be much incentive to pay $10. 
Without something for your $10, the club then is in the same situation as asking 
for donations for pizza.

Joe

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