Re: [Fsfe-uk] Activity

[John¹]

On Friday 27 February 2009 09:50:10 Alex Hudson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Apologies for not jumping in sooner, real life is busy right now :)
>
> The status of AFFS is technically dormancy, but really it has reached
> the end of its life. A number of aspects of it basically turned out to
> be unworkable, but live and learn I guess. The main issue is that AFFS
> has not really ever managed to disperse any assets: we've collected
> donations to the FSFE and forwarded those on, and we've paid for some
> conferences, but that's been basically about it. I guess the silver
> lining to that cloud is that there is now a small nest-egg which needs
> to be taken on by a group with (very) similar aims.
>
> The reason I say end of life isn't much to do with the AFFS or people
> itself; we still have issues with the bank account which have never
> really been sorted out properly despite efforts of a number of us
> (indeed, MJ kicked that off way back when).

there are two points that I would make,
a) I am still paying a membership subscription, and therefore presumably 
still a member.
b) That the forgoing being the case, I would have thought that it should be 
a priority of the remaining members to disburse what what ever "nest egg" 
there is to a suitable body, I would suggest the FSFE. 

-- 
John Seago
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