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Re: Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration

Hello all,

I agree with Alayne, this: "OCLUG gave NCF $4247.90 -- and now the NCF wants to charge _every member_
of a low-volume mailing list $12/year? Yes, I'd call it an obstacle, both
the cost for some & the PITA for anyone who doesn't need to be an NCF
member."

Is not going to work.

Personally, I would like to be involved in a Board for a Linux/Unix user group - I cannot dedicate myself to Linux or the GPL for various reasons.  I would, however, support an Ottawa/Gatineau/NCR Unix Users Group, or reviving the (http://www.ocuug.on.ca/).  If anyone is currently working on this, please reach out to me!

Sincerely,
Katie


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From: alayne [ at ] twobikes [ dot ] ottawa [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <alayne [ at ] twobikes [ dot ] ottawa [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca>
Sent: 05 August 2023 13:36
To: Linux-Ottawa <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org>
Subject: Re: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration

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OCLUG gave NCF $4247.90 -- and now the NCF wants to charge _every member_
of a low-volume mailing list $12/year? Yes, I'd call it an obstacle, both
the cost for some & the PITA for anyone who doesn't need to be an NCF
member.

Imagine trying to get anyone new involved in OCLUG -- "BTW, it will cost
you $12/year to get meeting notices and take part in discussions."

Surely there's a better solution that this.

Alayne

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023, J C Nash wrote:
> With declining participation and willingness to serve on the Board,
> Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group, an Ontario not-for-profit corporation
> was dissolved on April 14, 2023 upon a vote of just 16 members (1 more
> than our quorum). Our monies ($4247.90) were donated to National Capital
> Freenet, which was deemed an organization that had similar goals and
> interests. The abbreviation OCLUG will be used for the corporation.

[...]

> Caveats:
>
> It could be that the mailing list and discussion groups would only be
> available to registered NCF "members". However, NCF will give an email
> (which likely constitutes being a member) at a suggested donation of
> $1 / month. NCF does, of course, also act as an ISP and offers various
> network option. Several of us are already members/subscribers. If the
> NCF involvement with Linux flourishes, I suspect the $1 / month level
> of contribution is not an obstacle.

[...]

--
Alayne McGregor
alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca

The shyness is not unusual. If you weren't quiet, you wouldn't have so desperately searched for a way to speak. The reason you have so desperately pursued your work and your language and your voice is because you haven't had one. - Bruce Springsteen, in _Renegades_

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