On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:39:12AM -0500, mgenelin at ieee.umn.edu wrote:
>Hey Chuck-
>
>I see your side here. But consider one thing here: The ham club has been
>around since 1919. We have a number of alumni members that keep the club
>going in lean student-enrollment years. The Ham club's 83 years in
>existance sorta daunts the 2+ years of TC-WUG. =)

FYI. We are just approaching the 1 year mark :)
>
>Regards,
>---Matthew Genelin---
>
>
>> I'm concerned however that an arrangement with the Gopher HAM Club may
>> not be so good either: it may be more temporary than TCWUG may want.  If
>> equipment is given to the HAM club, it is theirs, not ours.  If it's a
>> student club, then there's nobody with continuity, and they could decide
>> to limit usage or scrap out the equipment if there are no interested
>> student leaders for WiFi that semester.  Student enthusiasm is great,
>> but usually peaks in the sophomore year and fades away afterwards.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org]On
>>> Behalf Of steve ulrich
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:02 AM
>>> To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org
>>> Cc: 'SpencerUnderground '; 'Renee Ladd '; 'W Braun '
>>> Subject: Re: [TCWUG] Install Moos [hurdle]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> setting aside the issues associated with the terms of the lease and
>>> such.  i would like to applaud arnan for stepping up to the plate and
>>> being willing to engage the ham club and tcwug in what i think is
>>> ultimately a very generous offer.  being pragmatic about things i
>>> don't think that there's anything in the terms of the lease offered by
>>> arnan that is draconian - this is standard lease stuff, which
>>> includes holding the leasee responsible for the state of the goods
>>> given that they don't really hold title to the gear in question.
>>>
>>> i don't think that it's fair for arnan to lease the gear (at zero
>>> cost) and expect them to pay for the gear to be fixed if something
>>> happens to it.
>>>
>>> unfortunately - i believe we've run into the the hurdle that i think
>>> we all saw coming wrt a loose knit group of individuals having an
>>> interest in a particular technology and no formal mechanisms to engage
>>> organizations (read: businesses) that would like to do something good,
>>> like arnan.
>>>
>>> despite the best held intentions of the parties involved, there are
>>> times when the needs of both cannot be addressed.  in all fairness i
>>> doubt we (tcwug specifically) are in a position to engage anybody in
>>> such a dialog until we formalize (legally) our organization.
>>>
>>> as an aside - it would likely behoove us (tcwug) to come to a good
>>> working arrangement with the gopher radio club to address these
>>> matters in the best (overlapping) interests of the 2 groups.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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