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I really appreciate everyone trying to be helpful, but just because I've been getting frustrated and am trying to move the board in a different direction does NOT mean that I want everyone to start paying for it! ABSOLUTELY NOT!
The bills are $130 a month. I get in nearly $90 in voluntary donations. Often the shortfall is covered by more occasional donations filtered through Loz. It has been a pain keeping the money together over the last year, but essentially it's really not very large amounts of money we're talking about. I'd like to keep it that way.
As I've said - voluntary donations to the cost of running the place are fine - as far as I'm concerned it's like friends clubbing together to rend a nightclub or something. I don't WANT to make a profit from this place, I don't WANT to force people out who can't go through the normal financial channels.
in fact all I want is for the people who are on the board to feel free and comfortable enough to talk about whatever they want at the astonishingly high level of debate that Barbelith is capable of. All I want is for people on the board to continue to meet new people through it - people who inspire them and make them do new and creative things. All I want is for Barbelith to be a place for engaged and passionate people to STAY engaged, STAY passionate - and to help introduce each other (and anyone watching) to the full weirdness, wonderfulness, horror, spectacle and magic of the world.
And now I'm going to quote from a song: "Hate your job? Love your stuff? If you think that's living you are wrong."
There are more important things in life than money - if you can find them. Barbelith can show you the way... |
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