TLUG and government grants

[Fraser Campbell]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

> As I understand it, GTALUG was formed by some subset of TLUG to 
> collect membership dues so that they could figure out what to do with 
> the membership dues once they had them. I have read various ideas of 
> what they want to do with the dues and list them below.
> 
> * buy a projector

Sometimes problematic, this would be useful.


> * pay for meeting space

Generally freely available from corporations and education institutions 
from what I have seen.


> * protect members from legal liability

Dunno, could be.  I sure wouldn't want to be a director of GTALUG if 
this was the purpse, assume liability for all members, no thanks.


> * "go after contracts"
> * "go after government grants"

This sounds very much for-profit, certainly not activity of a 
user/advocacy group.

> Paid-up membership in GTALUG apparently also gives one the right to 
> vote for directors who in turn are some day supposed to figure out 
> what GTALUG, this formal layer above TLUG, is and why it is 
> necessary.
> 
> Did I miss anything?

Hopefully you have.

One possibly useful outcome of incorporation might be the ability to 
invite paid speakers to TLUG meetings.  Toronto Perl Mongers (or 
possibly a very small subset) managed to arrange several visits by 
Damien Conway, outrageously successful talks.  I also recall them 
arranging a YAPC conference.  They may not be incorporated mind you ...
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