I side with Jesse in terms of who spends their money and why. My only concern would people receiving medication for Alzheimers (there seems to be 'real' link there with some medications and uncontrolled gambling). Otherwise, choice/free-will prevails.
Anyway, I would consider strategic funding of pro-FOSS efforts. I always look at the notion of "hand a man a fish and he wants another, teach him to fish and he's free." In this sense, 1./ Perhaps contribute toward an endowment or research grant at the University level for something that would take a strength of Linux/FOSS and push it further (eg. establish a research cluster). My Alumnus has something like that cooking with surplussed gear (from the University): http://www.baldric.uwo.ca/ (pictures too) benefit: Research Funding <Note: This would be a good idea anyway....bingo/casino haul or not!> 2./ Bounties. Look at projects near and dear to our hearts and strategically support bounties to define and develop specific fixes or functionalities the group as a whole elects as highest priorities. benefit: Funding to FOSS developers 3./ As much as I like the idea of training for all, I'd qualify it to supporting training for registered not-for-profit or charitable status organizations. Sorry, as far as I'm concerned. oil companies can afford their own training. If they can't figure it out, natural selection will take care of them in the long run. benefit: Funding community Development efforts 4./ Support for FOSS efforts regarding community development (i.e. public access / digital divide) ...see above benefit: Funding community development efforts 5./ Install and maintain a FOSS based public access station in each public library. benefit: Funding community/social awareness 6./ Support for FOSS efforts regarding eduction of young people. Perhaps supporting education efforts in the Public School system. benefit: Funding community/social awareness 7./ Support for FOSS lobbying efforts in the big "P" Political, sense. benefit: Political Exposure Anyway, my $0.02 Marcel - On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:21 -0600, Shawn wrote: > On Friday 22 July 2005 14:03, Jesse Kline wrote: > > Not to ruin the parade, but it takes about two years or longer to get > > into a casino. > > There is a period of time between casions, and from approval to the event > itself. With Avro Museum, we are looking at a 18 month period. But, this > period would not start until we did apply. So if we were to wait 18 months, > then apply, we'd have yet another 18 months (or more) before we actually did > the casino. > > So, my thoughts are that IF we want to raise funds like this, the sooner we > start the better.... > > That said, I just got off the phone with the AGLC, and we "most definitely > fit > into a grey area". The next step then is for us to make an application. > There's a fair bit that has to be in place for this to happen - the first of > which is a choice if this is what we want to do. An official motion must be > made and approved by the members - the exec cannot make this decision on > their own. We've already started the discussion side of this, and I'd like > to see it continue. Still lots to be decided and done if we choose to go > ahead this way. I'll talk about this briefly at the next meeting where I can > give more details verbally (easier than doing this by email.. :) ) And of > course, the exec will be discussing this more.... > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
