Good afternoon everyone. I want to let you all know that our membership has 3 months left. The leadership used the meetup donations to pay the 3 month membership. I costs the meetup group an average of $12 per meetup for the 6 month membership or $15 per meetup for the 3 month membership. I and everyone else would prefer the the 6 month membership since it is cheaper.

We will continue to have a donation jar at the meetups to continue to collect money for the membership fees. This is good but we want to offer the community more.

So.....

My challenge to the community is this: If we can raise over $70 in the next 3 months, then I will take the money over the $70 and buy gift cards, and other prizes to be offered in a raffle on the 4th meetup. The amount and value of the prizes will depend on how much money as a community we can raise with donations.

To reach the minimal goal of $70 this works out to $24 per meetup. I and the other leaders want to do more.

The leaders and myself are work out somethings at this time to also do our part for reaching this goal. It is early in the planning and I can not release the details at this time. If everything goes well then I will report what we have been working on.

After each meetup I will send everyone and update on our progress.

This is a fun experiment. Lets see what we can do.

If you have any comments or questions please send me an email by clicking on the envelope left of this message that is under my picture.

Lets see what we can do as a team.

Edward
A.O.