On Tuesday 09 July 2002 13:42, Chris Herrnberger wrote: > 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.
CLUE can provide a Canada wide directory of LUG's, a common Newbie resource page, links to speakers and presentations, and an exchange of documents (bylaws, policies, procedures, contracts, brochures...no sense reinventing the wheel ) With a large enough number of LUGs in Canada the annual fee could be quite low. > > 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. I agree we don't want to back one organziation over another without cause. > > 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. We could offer a rotating ad on the site, a listing on a Canadian linux vendor s page, mention on news letter, a central contact pont for canadian linux users. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
