[dayton-oracle-organizers] Approved by DMA
- From: "Catherine Devlin" <catherine.devlin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dayton-oracle-organizers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:57:22 -0400
Hi, everybody!
I went to last night's meeting of DMA's board of trustees and received
their official blessing to become a DMA SIG. They were quite friendly
and supportive.
What we get from DMA:
- Freedom from worrying about incorporation, insurance, blah blah blah.
- As soon as we get a meeting schedule, they'll publish it at the DMA
website and in the DMA newspaper
- Can meet at the DMA facility if we want. We probably don't want to,
but it's nice to have the option.
- Presence on their website - Dave, can you write lundyd@xxxxxxx (the
DMA webmaster) to coordinate that?
- If we ever do start handling money, we can keep a virtual account
with them; they'll track what we've "deposited" and remit it to us as
requested, saving us from dealing with our own bank account, taxes,
etc. The only cost to us is that unspent funds revert to the DMA if
we dissolve.
What we owe them:
- Our president is required to be a DMA member. No problem, since I
already was. Nobody else has to be, although I think it would be only
decent to gently encourage our members to investigate DMA membership.
- We're asked to take attendance at our meeting and submit it to the DMA VP.
A pretty good deal for us, I think!
The DMA newsletter, the DataBus, would also be eager to publish an
article announcing our formation. Free publicity for us - would
someone like to volunteer to write it up? I can loan you some of my
DataBus'es if you want to see its format.
Meanwhile, I've belatedly gotten positive responses from OOUG to the
idea of becoming an OOUG SIG. (The point of the OOUG affiliation
would basically just be to get at their database of speakers.)
DMA also said they wouldn't mind us affiliating both with them and
with OOUG as a SIG of *both* organizations. I still have to talk to
OOUG about how they'd feel about us two-timing on them.
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- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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