--- On Mon, 14/9/09, Vamsee Kanakala <vkanak...@gmail.com> wrote: > varadarajan narayanan wrote: > > It will be nice if NRCFOSS gives a handsome donation > to ILUGC since > > ILUGC members are selflessly putting so much work. > NRCFOSS being a big > > government organization should be able to do that. It > will be every > > motivating and rewarding for ILUGC for taking such > initiatives. > > After all any such events fares do cost lot of money. > > > > I don't speak for NRC-FOSS, but still, I find that a little > ridiculous - there's no legal entity called ILUGC - so even > if one does want to, there's nothing to donate to. If you're > talking about compensating individual members, I'm sure none > of them expect anything of that sort. And the last I know, > even NRC-FOSS has budget constraints, and just because it's > a government organization it doesn't mean it can do whatever > it wants with the allotted funds. And things like > distributing money just spoils the spirit for everybody. -1, > my friend.
There are other expenses than just compensating volunteers. Lack of our legal entity need not prevent them from giving publicity in media, which on our own we cannot do. It need not be an ad, just a press realease/press meet will go a long way. Raman.P http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com Add whatever you love to the Yahoo! India homepage. Try now! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
