[Scottish] Your caring, sharing LUG

[Kyle Gordon]

Willie wrote:
> 
> The wikipedia folks need some help http://www.wikimedia.org/letter.html.
> A quick confab on IRC suggested we could make a difference by taking up a
> collection at the next meeting and making a single  PayPal (or whatever)
> transaction.  A goal of raising £50 was mentioned.  We also touched on a
> regular donation programme to support worthy Open Source projects.
> Real big time approx £1 per person per month from those who can afford it and
> wish to donate. Even students can afford that, surely?
> 
> Thoughts, flames?

I like the idea, and am willing to contribute and help out if possible.

> 
> Latest news is that wikipedia have reached their target, however there are
> plenty of other worthy projects.
> 
> Almost entirely unrelated, I was surfing (cant mind just what linked to it)
> and came across www.blug.org.
> Is this a model we should attempt to emulate? They also claim to be
> "technically unstructured"
> 
No thoughts either way, sorry.


> --
> Best Regards
> Willie Fleming
> 
regards

Kyle