I am going to try to halt where this line of emails/thinking usually takes us.
First off, SkullSpace is doing fine. It is time that our members get comfortable with the idea that this non-profit of ours is not going to be self-sustaining through memberships. That shouldn't scare anyone though. Up until now, we were usually running ~$200 short based on memberships alone. I can't find a month in the last year where we did not *easily* make up for that in donations and food/drink sales. The rent is increasing in January so there will be more of a gap to bridge. SkullSpace hosts events that bring in a decent amount of money. Think of the social, PegJam (if that is what it was called), user group meetings. Once we have our OP we will definitely see an increase in attendees at hackathons, plus earn a decent profit on drink sales. What better way to attract IT than booze? Really, all I am getting at is people need to stop thinking about just getting enough members to sustain. That hasn't happened. We basically plateaued as far as membership numbers go. Quite a few hackerspaces operate like this, relying on donations to stay in operation. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:42 PM, <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: > From those numbers we're losing $400-500 per month - I assume food > purchases and members giving above their dues helps that a little bit - but > we're still at the "need 10 new full members to survive in a year" stage? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Trump <itr...@octopitech.com> > Sender: discuss-bounces@lists.skullspace.caDate: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:12:12 > To: <discuss@lists.skullspace.ca><discuss@lists.skullspace.ca> > Reply-To: discuss@lists.skullspace.ca > Cc: ad...@skullspace.ca<ad...@skullspace.ca> > Subject: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Financial Update/ Financial Forecast > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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