[kwlug disc.] Re: sdf gossip

[Paul Nijjar]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Unsolicited wrote:

> Cedric Puddy wrote, On 6/11/2007 1:42 PM:

>> I'm not sure I know what you mean, Paul
>
> I suspect I know what he means. If you look at
> http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?faq?MISC?08, near the bottom, costs
> went from $4,878 to $18,276 in one year, then to $16,328. Which is
> rather startling.

 	Right. That was the page I was using to jump to conclusions. They 
also write "keep in mind this doesn't include hardware, which in our
current setup has an estimated value of $104,992 ..". It definitely helps 
that they get some hardware donated, though.

 	I can easily believe that the SDF people are frugal, and I don't 
begrudge them for their donation requests -- not having to deal with web 
advertising is a bonus. But if these folks really are paying tens of 
thousands of dollars in rent when only getting a few thousand dollars in 
donations each year, I wonder where the rest of the money comes from. 
Their upgraded membership levels? Endowments? I would like SDF to stay 
around for another twenty years, but so far I am not able to make the 
numbers work.

- Paul

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