From matt.mattarn@gmail.com Wed Mar 11 13:54:31 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.240]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LhVRZ-0005XR-RT for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:54:31 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so189676rvb.46 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:54:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=d/fvUKUVqCOyBQrrdW0Cqz8xg+x7Ekfbt+jcr35YlYY=; b=u480eg9WyW27QSBq72uJ175WgjFvgoMSpytSH7IXqILLHTE0XjDsIKeJ/dCj8ymxWY 8LcCQsCnea+tFXP3JD3/chgqkQGmFX8dfTW66L0lEqwoQYKZnAaLCgaYFIZZO8vUIeI6 AueRuz9pw9kBviLD6oBrUiTvv623zOdFZTQOc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RFSqsIyKhHjzfB0yg7gFb5GsUH+L1TTGG7lxoMQ7znbi0m99qPsuKdiasj+cXhkAMo pbjn/f9/GHxgluGUE50WDSyHtaNxs2R0kWXoSMF/uf4HYffqbQZCb3O94+6hRuD81vwa 1+aAywmmkpOQcxa8mZKIsaYLVZS2U+zsD61+s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.29.11 with SMTP id g11mr4585739rvj.17.1236804864960; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:54:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49B8239E.40402@lojban.org> References: <20090305191021.GE27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B03EEA.3050305@lojban.org> <20090305212839.GI27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B0473D.2060508@lojban.org> <20090305214356.GJ27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B06356.9080901@lojban.org> <20090305235619.GO27391@digitalkingdom.org> <49B789EF.8060402@lojban.org> <20090311103021.GT7405@nvg.org> <49B8239E.40402@lojban.org> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:54:24 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. From: Matt Arnold To: llg-board@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 493 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board Hey guys, Lojbab is right, and this is something that was pointed out to me within other organizations as well. If someone has to go away for any of a variety of reasons, then you find out you can no longer afford to do what you were doing on the same budget. It's useful to track what we are getting for free. -Matt On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: >>> >>> At one time you mentioned that we might have to start paying a commercial >>> server to handle lojban.org.  I can't imagine that this would be cheap. >> >> Robin is currently paying out of pocket for a server on Amazon Cloudfront. > > It would be nice if these sorts of things appeared on the books as a > donation (he could possible get a tax benefit too).  That way our income and > expenses are reflected more accurately, and we can make decisions with > better knowledge.  As it is, I can only guess what our expenses would be if > Robin was no longer funding us (and we should always be aware of the > possibility that any of us might leave the scene - something my own health > situation has brought home rather strongly in recent months - or lose > financial security and be unable to fund things like Robin has done). > > lojbab > > >