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: Re: LUG: Server, funds, purpose
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: Edward Anderson <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]>
Date
: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:47:07 -0500
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Unless you have no further input, you should register for a reddit
account, so you can participate in the discussion. I promise it's not
hard ;-)
Ed
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Daniel Marcus <danielm.nc@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
> I can not comment on that page, and I don't feel like making another
> registration just for this.
> Positively,
> Daniel S. Marcus
> Omni Impact Small Business Services
> Phone: (XXX) 926 9624
> Business: daniel@omniimpact.[redacted]
> Personal: daniel@d-site.[redacted]
> Website: http://omniimpact.com
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Brian Cottingham <spiffytech@gmail.[redacted]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Please take this conversation to the Reddit page (
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/NCSU_LUG/comments/ayyef/lug_server_discussion/ )
>> where it can be more effectively discussed in a non-linear format.
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Daniel Marcus <danielm.nc@gmail.[redacted]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I feel that it is important to make a statement about the use of LUG
>>> funds, so I will. Honestly, though, I don't know what I can say to make a
>>> difference.
>>> I feel that it is fiscally irresponsible to even consider spending money
>>> on a server when we have not even tried to see what we can do with the
>>> resources we can first gather as a group. Between what we could get from the
>>> NCSU surplus sale, and what our members have lying around, I am sure we can
>>> put together a machine capable of doing a large number of things.
>>> I am wholly opposed, however, to spending any extra money for a machine
>>> powerful enough to have the main purpose of a plaything for a few of our
>>> more vocal members to crash because they don't want to do it on their own
>>> computer.
>>> If you want a computer to overload with random computations, or you feel
>>> you have a serious need of a powerful tool to help you with your school
>>> work, go buy it yourself. I think it is immature to want a club to buy such
>>> a thing for you just because the club is not yet particularly large.
>>> I would rather see the money go to things that would help us grow. I
>>> would like to see a LUG t-shirt that I can afford (Read: less than $6). I
>>> would like to see us being able to hand out some CD's when we have publicity
>>> events. I would like to be able to provide food once a semester at an
>>> interest meeting. I would like to be able to reward people when they do
>>> something particularly good for the club.
>>> I choose what to spend my money on. I've spent money on food for the LUG,
>>> at both the CCC and some snacks I brought to a meeting. I spend money when I
>>> go with the LUG to dinner.
>>> I felt a serious need for a computer to run as a server. I worked. I
>>> saved money. I bought one.
>>> There are members of the LUG who want us to spend money on a server, and
>>> are much more capable than I am of earning enough money to get a cheap
>>> desktop with a nice quad-core processor. If you really want one, work for
>>> it.
>>> Just because we are currently small, does not mean that we should be so
>>> egocentric so as to think that we can or should spend this money on
>>> ourselves for our personal use, and let's face it, when you're talking about
>>> "let's set up virtual machines for people..." that's exactly what you want
>>> to do.
>>> Positively,
>>> Daniel S. Marcus
>>> Omni Impact Small Business Services
>>> Phone: (XXX) 926 9624
>>> Business: daniel@omniimpact.[redacted]
>>> Personal: daniel@d-site.[redacted]
>>> Website: http://omniimpact.com
>>>
>>
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