On July 9, 2002 01:30 pm, Bill Traynor wrote: > CLUE will require a funding model. Here's some possible sources: > > 1. Membership fees. Note that this idea had been dismissed in the past as > some LUGs currently already have membership fees. There was a fear that > CLUE would cut into the LUGs money.
How about providign 'services' to LUG's which they can opt in on rather then a straight membership fee. This precludes that value services are defined at some stage. > 2. LPI Certification affiliate. > > I don't know all the details of this one yet, but essentially we promote > the LPI Certification and they give us money. See > http://www.lpi.org/affiliate_policy.txt Bad idea... unless all cerfication bodies are solicted. In general an arms length agrangement will be difficult to mainatain to avoid conflict of interests. > 3. Corporate sponsorship > > Not sure how wise this is, or even if it's allowed in the by-laws, but it's > one possible route. I figure if the Debian group can take a donation from > Lindows.com without compromise, then surely we can figure out how to do the > same. > > Please propose more funding ideas! I expect this may be a big hurdle. Probably the best source of funds once a defined purposefull organization emerges. Chris H. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
