[TheForge] Re: Seattle Board Meeting Minutes Posted

[lama]

Peter, thanks for your input. I like your suggestions and like you said,
you'll end up having to do them. Well, at least do a little research on
how an idea would work then submit your idea to the "Membership
Services Committee", (as quoted from the ABANA web site)
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Membership Services: Develops, implements, and oversees beneficial
programs that are educational in nature or provide needed resources
identified as services for ABANA's individual members.
 Chairman: Bob Fredell fredell@frostbit.com
Members:Bob Jacoby, Murray Lowe, Charlie Bateman*, Dave Feterl*,
Mary Fredell*, Dave Mariette*, John Moriarty*
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I haven't heard of that kind of insurance, but it sure sounds interesting.
You'll have to ask Brian Gilbert about it, but I don't think that anyone
will ever get paid for writing. Who determines the value? What about
copyright issues? etc.... and it's not in the budget. I like the idea of
having more events out west (did you go to Flagstaff?) and the board
meeting was in Seattle last November. I think that ABANA only has
one big event every other year, we (ABANA) needs a proposal from
someone willing to host a conference out west.
dave m.


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer <Artgawk@thegrid.net>


> At 10:53 PM 12/24/01, you wrote:
> Yes...I'm easily confused...my native cynicism abandoned me...sorry.
> I'd assumed than the cost of insurance covering  the board  from the
> chapter "fallout" was significant...wrong.
> " Of real value"
> Oh , it's easy to make proposals like a shop and health insurance Pool
that
> was non profit , for the members...and
> say , paying writers for articles so as to raise the number and level of
> hammer's blow contributions.....or , Hiring someone like
> Jock Demsey to make the web-site something other than pretty...and ,
having
> more ABANA events out west  for the members here...
> But I wouldn't propose things like that, because I know darn well that if
I
> do, I'll end up having to do them.
> Perhaps when my wife has a house....There will be time.
> I want to strongly state that I realize that ABANA is powered by volunteer
> efforts,
> and that  I'm grateful for the huge number of hours you folks put in,
> and the kvetching you put up with.
> Pete Fels
>
>