As per my previous emails and personal responses to inquiries. The donations of our membership have yielded a small profit over the past months, reflected in our bank balance.
Drinks and food are more or less a wash. We purchased a vending miser which apparently was supposed to give use detailed information on the drink machine but I am yet to receive any information on drinks sold vs. money received. I for one have privately (now public) advocated to see membership capped at 50 full members and 20 students. This has mostly been do to the capacity of the volunteer board and my personal belief that SKSP membership should be prized and cherished. There has been little support for my ideas :) I hope this clarifies the situation. Ian Sent from my iPhone On 2013-12-24, at 20:05, "Roswyne" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Nonetheless, it would be preferable to have the remaining income needed to meet our monthly expenses lined up in advance, at least tentatively. This could include: * estimated profit from drink sales * projected income drone scheduled room rental * upcoming fundraising events * pledged donations At this point in time, I don't know how we make our monthly shortfall, and would be interested in finding out. On Dec 23, 2013 1:24 PM, "Jeremy Hiebert" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sender: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:12:12 To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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/ _______________________________________________ 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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