Re: [Fsfe-uk] AFFS

[Marc Eberhard]

Dear John,

I have stopped paying my subscription to AFFS when it failed to invite
members to an AGM. As far as I remember it was a requirement for AFFS to
hold at least one annual meeting. So the situation might be really tricky in
legal terms. I also have not received any information from AFFS until August
2006 (when my postal address changed) and I have not received a confirmation
that my address update sent to address@hidden has been acted upon. I
have never received a reminder about outstanding subscription fees and I
never received a letter that my membership has come to an end. So, frankly,
I don't know if I'm still a member with outstanding fees or no member
anymore.

All the best,
Marc

2009/2/27 John¹ <address@hidden>

> If there are any of the subscribing members of the AFFS reading this
> mailing list, then I would like to make the following suggestions,
>
> a) that we ask someone who has experience of the AFFS finance and bank
> account, to clarify the position of the account, and make what ever
> arrangements are necessary to release the funds therein. I do not think
> that it would be inappropriate to offer an honorarium to whoever manages
> to sort out, as above, the financial aspects of what is left of the AFFS,
> co-opting Mark Ray would seem to be the most expeditious method of doing
> this,
> and,
> b) return those donations that are conditional to their original donors, if
> possible, (I seem to recall that at the meting I attended in Birmingham
> that someone had donated £1000.00, which I'm sure they can find a suitable
> recipient or use for),
> having done that,
> c) disburse any remaining funds to some suitable body, the FSFE seems to me
> to be the most suitable,
> then,
> d) the remaining members either wind up the AFFS, or re-launch it with a
> more flexible, democratic, simple rule book, or simply not pay our next
> years subscription and let the AFFS fade into the sunset.
>
> However notwithstanding the foregoing, I will continue to pay my
> subscription, and thus retain my membership until such time as I am
> satisfied that the AFFS monies have either been returned from whence they
> came or properly disposed of. As at the moment I seem to be the only
> surviving member who has any interest in this matter I hereby volunteer to
> act a Secretary to the AFFS, until such time as the remaining members make
> their wishes known to me.
>
> I can be contacted at the above email address, or at my home address,
>  'Fasgadh'
> Errogie
> Inverness
> Inverness-shire
> IV2 6UH
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> John Seago
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>
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