[SGVLUG] SGVLUG/SGVHAK fundraising on Thursday 3/9

[Bryan Backer via SGVLUG]

I also like the paypal suggestion - if that's around, it can be politely
mentioned at meetings or gatherings,
keeping the fundraising bucket always accessible but low key.

Thank you for all your efforts keeping things rolling Lan!

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Lan Dang via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
wrote:

> Hi Matt, Jason, et al,
>
> Thanks for the positive response.  The LUG does not have a bank account
> that I'm aware of.  We're just relying on a few people to handle the bills
> and accounting.  If you're interested in the PayPal option, contact me
> off-list at L dot Dang at YMAIL dot COM, and I will send you to James.
> Braddock is helping me set up a new administrative mailing list so we can
> talk about these things. As a functional anarchy, things get done because
> people want to do them.  Or because I know them IRL and we can have a
> conversation about it.
>
> Lan
>
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> *From:* Matthew Campbell via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> *To:* SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 9, 2017 8:17 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [SGVLUG] SGVLUG/SGVHAK fundraising on Thursday 3/9
>
> I second that.  I will be out of town for the meeting.
>
> Matt
>
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> Matthew Campbell
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>
> Kaiser Permanente
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> 99 S. Oakland
> Pasadena, CA 91101
>
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> 8-338-7228 (tie-line)
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> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Jason Riker via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> wrote:
>
> Group,
>
> Do we have an online account, like PayPal, where we can donate?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Lan Dang via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> tl;dr Running this group costs money.  Please contribute to our
> fundraising at SGVLUG meeting on Thursday.  We have cool stuff leftover
> from our SCaLE booth.
>
> WHY WE NEED MONEY
> ==================
> As I have mentioned before, it costs about $300/year to pay for
> SGVLUG/SGVHAK/SGVTech expenses.  Numbers available at the end of this
> email.
>
> We raised $91 at our SCaLE booth, so we have a ways to go
>
>
> RAISING MONEY ON THURSDAY
> ==========================
> We have a SGVLUG meeting this Thursday at 7pm at OpenX (888 E Walnut
> Street, Pasadena, CA), so I would like to continue the fundraising there. If
> you value our functional anarchy (and my sanity), please bring cash with
> you and participate in our raffle.  You can also just donate.
> https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech /events/234637699/
> <https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/234637699/>
>
> RAFFLE
> ---------
> Everyone will get a raffle ticket for attending the meeting.  If you want
> to increase your chances of winning the raffle, you can buy more tickets
> for $1 apiece.  We will have 3 bins for you to put the raffle ticket into,
> depending on what prize you want.
>
> We will be raffling off
>  * SGVLUG/SGVHAK-ware (t-shirt or cup)
>  * No Starch books/ebook vouchers (might have multiple winners)
>  * Starch himself**
>
> ** NOTE: I'm a little unclear about what you get as a raffle prize, but I
> promised that Steven and I would pool our resources and contribute $1 for
> each raffle ticket in Starch's bin.
>
> DONATION + REWARDS
> -----------------------------
> If you'd rather go the donation route, we have plenty of rewards, thanks
> to the generosity of Tux-Lab.  Plus, we have some nice O'Reilly books we
> picked up during booth teardown at SCaLE 14x.
>    - Tux-Lab Tux acrylic keychains for minimum of $1 donation
>    - O'Reilly books for minimum of $2 donation
>    - Tux-Lab Tux and GNU acrylic phone stands for minimum of $10 donation
>    - Tux-lab aluminum cases with colored acrylic covers for Arduino Uno or
> Raspberry Pi for minimum of $20 donation.
>
>
>
> WHERE THE MONEY GOES
> ======================
> We give James the money and he pays the bills and accounts for it in a
> Google doc.   Before SCaLE, we were down to $44.92 in the kitty.   Most of
> the money going into the kitty over the past 3 years have come from
> individual donations, the tip jar at Tux-Lab, and a rather large donation
> by Tux-Lab.
>
> Here is the breakdown for 2016.
>
> 1/5/2016 sgvtech.io NameCheap 18643966 32.88 1 year
> 1/30/2016 Meetup Group Meetup.com
> $89.94 6 months
> 3/15/2016 sgvlug.org,sgvlug.net NameCheap 19681687 $25.54 1 year
> 4/8/2016 Mailing List VPS BuyVM 168563 $15.00 1 year
> 8/14/2016 Meetup Group Meetup.com
> $89.94 6 months
> 8/28/16 sgvhak.org,net,com NameCheap
> $45.05 1 year
>
> The total was: $298.35
>
>
> Lan
>
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