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Re: IGLU



At 10:35 8/15/00 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

>Ladies, Gents and that newbie from Alpha Xi Ceti who registered
>yesterday,
>
>I'm please to announce the *official* forming of IGLU - the Israeli
>Group of Linux Users. This organization is a not for profit organization
>that will be registered with Rasham ha Amutut in a few days.
>
>Anyone interested to join the Amuta must:
>1. Send me his name, email, phone number and ID.
>2. Be prepared to pay the member fees, when and if it will be so decided
>(I'm thinking either 20 NIS a month OR performing some sort of service
>for the Amuta - so that money won't stop people from joining, what do
>you think?)


20 NIS a month means 240 NIS a year, and as a student I don't think I can 
afford to pay that much. I think there are other people in this position 
too. In any case, since I contribute to the Linux-IL web-site, I think I 
can be excluded from paying those fees. But what about other people?

And another question: what are we going to do with all the money that we 
will pay?

For the first place I suggest lower fees. Something in the range of 50 NIS 
a year. We survived this far without any monthly payment, so there is no 
reason we should be in any need of money now.



>5 members of the Amuta will form the IGLU Cabal - the managing board of
>the Amuta. They will be the persons in charge of day to day matters
>between Amuta official meetings. This Cabal will be chosen once a year
>in Amuta official meetings. Until the first meeting the Cabal will be
>made from Ira, Chen, Eli Marmor and YBA, if they choose to join,
>otherwise will make something up. The Amuta will appoint from time to
>time additional officer to take care of specific business. I'll guess
>I'll shove my snout into things too ;-)
>
>The target of the Amuta will be to form a legal body that will be able
>to back up and represent the actions of the free software / open source
>/ linux community in Israel. Despite the name, I think we should cover
>all free software/ OSS, including things like Qmail and BSDs.

Fair enough, and I back up this view.


>The Amuta will try its best to assist all the community activity, both
>present and future, but it should be understood that the Amuta does NOT
>come to replace any activity organizers but only to help them by
>providing an "official" legal body that they can use as a cover for
>their activities (donations, dealing with vendors etc.) as long as those
>activities are lawful and in the charter of the Amuta.
>
>The Amuta will do it's best to let anyone and everyone enjoy the
>activities it sponsors, without regard to sex, race, creed or editor
>preference ;-) including people with disabilities.
>
>OK, now it's your turn.
>
>Also, if anyone knows an accountant that is willing to do us a favor and
>take care of the money side of
>business pro bono it'll be great. We already have a lawyer.
>
>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE follow up this email on iglu@egroups.com mailing
>list only and not on Linux-il. thanks.
>
>--
>Gilad Ben-Yossef <gby@kagoor.com>
>http://kagoor.com | +972(9)9565333 x230 | +972(54)756701
>"I've been seduced by the chocolate side of the force."
>
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