[Finance Manager]

Paypal account balance is at $1581.77

Over the past 5 years the balance has steadily increased. We should consider spending some money .

Donation within the past year:
May 31, 2009 Maille Mystique $50.00 USD
May 29, 2009 Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker $20.00 USD
May 29, 2009 Paul Tardif Jr l $25.00 USD
May 27, 2009 Sara Reading $5.00 USD
Mar. 24, 2009 Urban Maille ChainWorks $250.00 USD
Feb. 28, 2009 Jeffrey Fair $10.00 USD
Feb. 28, 2009 Cynthia Kazos $10.00 USD
Feb. 9, 2009 Charlie's Chaincraft $20.00 USD
Feb. 3, 2009 S I Friend $5.00 USD
Jul. 11, 2008 Tammy Bowman $2.00 USD

[Mouth]

let's maybe give the next theme contest a MAIL shirt or something..

or shirts for all the past coders.


or a 300$ scholarship to some metalcraft college student to pay for a book or two.

and definitely give blaise back his money.

i imagine paying blaise back will drop us down to around a grand. personally, i'd like to keep 500$ back for the next couple years worth of bills.

this gives us around 500$ to do something good with.

i would be extremely interested in hearing what the membership would like to see done with these funds.

thank you jon! you the man.

kim

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[Mouth]

legba, should your sig say, "please donate to MAIL, our scrooge mcduck pool isn't full yet."...?

this is still kind of boggling to me.

kim

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PSA: remember to stretch.
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[Mouth]

i'm not saying your sig was improper. people should be encouraged to donate to MAIL.. my comment -was- a little cheeky..

honestly, if we do some things which are deemed beneficial to the community / society with this money, people will keep putting money in.

i don't want to see the coffers "empty".. i'd like to keep 4 or 5 years worth of bills in the bank.

however it'd be nice to be able to say to members, "donating to MAIL pays our bills and does these things which benefit people," listlistlist.

kim

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PSA: remember to stretch.
3.o is fixing everything.

[Gallery Assistant]

Me too - like Sawgrass/MailleMystique I became aware by some post(s) here enough to dig further into the possibility to donate.

And I am/was participating member on a couple of forums, and on any of them that is/was it worth in my opinion, I willingly pay/paid my obulus. So now mailleartisans is on my personal list of these forums that are worth being paid for the services provided, while another one that went the commercial way, not only lost my money but participation as well. And that leads to my opinion that this money should be used in the first place to provide the possibility to remain noncommercial and independent.

And acknowledging the fact, that Blaise did pay 'til now for the forum's hosting out of his purse, by his own choice, we should try to re-pay him (maybe parts of) his expenses - if he accepts it. In case of him not accepting to be re-paid, we should follow that (imho) good idea of using some cash normally needed for hosting expenses for a scholarship instead - and grant Blaise the right to chose, who will get it...

-ZiLi-

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A single link will be worth nothing.
A chain is of use, but will break at the weakest link.
A weak weave will have the need to replace weak links.
A strong weave will survive even with weak links included.
-'me

[Links Caretaker]

Not sure what a scholarship means, a MAIL educational scholarship? ....applicants, approval committee, review and compliance committee? Giving away money is even more complicated that recieving money.

Specific Grants might work....I'm thinking more like hardware, our own dedicated server, software, on-site data storage/backup....

We shouldn't forget Jon doing CPA work for the past, how Long? It's probably not much, but I see keeping the donations and books straight over the years as a big deal....an invaluable contribution in itself.

Kodiak-

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[Gallery Assistant]

Kodiak: When I used the word 'scholarship', I re-used the term used by kim in a post predating mine - replace it freely by donation, giveaway or so. If it is decided to use some money in this way, it will surely be discussed, HOW that will be done.

About getting an 'own' server, or another enhancement of our site: That might make more sense than 'burning' money by making gifts...

-ZiLi-

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Human societies are like chain mail.
A single link will be worth nothing.
A chain is of use, but will break at the weakest link.
A weak weave will have the need to replace weak links.
A strong weave will survive even with weak links included.
-'me