On Friday 27 February 2009 09:50:10 Alex Hudson wrote: > Hi guys, > > Apologies for not jumping in sooner, real life is busy right now :) > > The status of AFFS is technically dormancy, but really it has reached > the end of its life. A number of aspects of it basically turned out to > be unworkable, but live and learn I guess. The main issue is that AFFS > has not really ever managed to disperse any assets: we've collected > donations to the FSFE and forwarded those on, and we've paid for some > conferences, but that's been basically about it. I guess the silver > lining to that cloud is that there is now a small nest-egg which needs > to be taken on by a group with (very) similar aims. > > The reason I say end of life isn't much to do with the AFFS or people > itself; we still have issues with the bank account which have never > really been sorted out properly despite efforts of a number of us > (indeed, MJ kicked that off way back when).
there are two points that I would make, a) I am still paying a membership subscription, and therefore presumably still a member. b) That the forgoing being the case, I would have thought that it should be a priority of the remaining members to disburse what what ever "nest egg" there is to a suitable body, I would suggest the FSFE. -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
