Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:41:41 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA & money
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 9/17/04 4:18:00 PM >>>
>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yes.  At 1st Friday September Bob reported:
>
>> "Bob (having arrived when SMOFcon was being queried)
>reported that
>> we have $898.48 in our main account, and - about 40K - in
>our World
>> Fantasy account"
>
>Sigh.  Were those really hyphens?  They were supposed to
>be quote
>marks.

Ah, when I cut & pasted from the WSFA page into Novell GroupWise they
were rendered as black vertical bars, which I replaced with the hyphens.
 My bad for not double checking the original source.

> I was trying to be sophisticated and have them appear
>as
>distinct open and close quote marks.  I know they look ok in
>IE,
>Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, and Lynx, always
>displaying as
>either distinct open and close quote marks, or as regular
>ASCII quote
>marks.  What were you using that rendered them as hyphens?
>
>Also, he said that during August's First Friday, not
>September's.

Obviously I have yet to catch up on my sleep from N4.

>
>I don't understand why there are still two separate accounts,
>and why
>one is always reported to the penny, and the other one never
>is.  But
>we've been assured that both are real.

Ask Bob.

>
>As to what to do with it, why do anything, other than end
>some of the
>more onerous austerity measures?  With my personal savings,
>I chose
>to spend very little, and in retrospect this turned out to be a
>wise
>choice, as I've had almost no income in the past three years.

And with the overall finances of Capclave being not robust, having this
surplus is a good thing.   Do we wish to continue to support Capclave in
this way, or should we try to grow it, or cut back on expenses (which
might be a little difficult since I suspect the expenses are pretty bare
to the bone).

Me, I'd like to see the con grow in a reasonable manner.

>
>Speaking of which, until recently I had thought my
>membership in
>Capclave was comped, as it was the two previous years, due
>to all the
>work I do for the conventions and for WSFA.  I plan to make
>a motion
>tonight that those of us who wrongly thought we were
>comped be allowed
>to buy a Capclave membership for whatever the lowest price
>ever
>offered was.

If asked, I would have thought that Capclave 04 was comping the worker
bees of last year.

>Since that's what I, at least, would have paid for
>it
>had someone told me I wasn't comped in time for me to buy it
>at that
>rate.  Similarly with SMOFcon.
>
>I plan to continue spending lots of time doing work for WSFA,
>Capclave, and our other cons.  But since WSFA is now
>wealthier than
>I am, I don't think it's reasonable to ask me to also make
>financial
>sacrifices for WSFA.

As a club, I think it is a good thing for the membership to pay annual
dues.  They're not that onerous.  That said, certainly comping people
who work on WSFA events is not out of the question.

>
>Speaking of time, the WSFA Journal online is finally old
>enough to run
>for Congress.  That's right, 25 full years.  By the end of next
>month,
>I expect to have the entire second series online, after which
>I'll
>start on the large Don Miller WSFA Journals.

Well, that's great news.
Have fun with the Miller issues.

mjw
>