[HCoop-Discuss] Budget Issues, Membership Meeting, and Overhauling HCoop

[Davor Ocelic]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:25:56 +0200
kattla <kattlachan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net>
> wrote:
> >> I think the poll is a little bit weird. We need to raise the dues
> >> to make everything go around. Why do we need a poll for that? Do
> >> we have any choice in that matter? If instead the poll asked
> >> "Would you leave hcoop if we raised the dues to $7?", then I would
> >> have no problem answering it, and I would answer "no".
> >
> > Specific answers impact which costs we can budget for, including
> > month-to-month hosting costs, one-time costs of hardware purchases,
> > emergency hardware replacement, etc..
>
> And my answer to the poll depends on if I find those costs
> justified. :-) I think the poll is much too general.

Maybe we (I?) assumed it, but various problems in the past few months
should be directly related to this poll, and so the fact that dues 
would be "justified" is implied.

The only way otherwise to know if the dues are justified or not is
to discuss the expenses on a case-by-case basis, which would
have no end to it, and would bring us back to a situation of
variable monthly dues which we had in the past, and was generally
disliked.

-doc