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

[Jason Riker via SGVLUG]

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/
>
> 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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