Re: Supplying 'getting started' software-- GSAUG

[warnken@mother.com]

> >As to the $5 fee, our club cost includes about $18 for newsletters.  And we
> >have to buy equipment, software and supplies from the rest.  A membership
> >without the newsletter would be worth discussing with the board. There are
> >lots of possibilities.	Any other ideas are welcome. Sandy Warnken 
> 
> I agree with the non-newsletter option. I used to be an officer with
> the Anchorage Apple Users Group in Anchorage, AK. Individuals in the
> 'bush' wanted to have access to our newsletter, but would never attend
> a meeting. They usually stopped by once, when they were in town, heard
> about the meeting and attended as a guest.
> 
> With a little hashing around we came to the conclusion that 10 bucks
> for a subscription to 12 issues of the newsletter was the solution. It
> was later raised to $12.50; about a buck an issue for the newsletter.
> As it was unlikely that we would get more than one 'regular'
> subscription, but we were able to a number of 'newsletter only'
> memberships.
> 
> Joe
> 
> P.S. Think of those back-side sales! :>

The newsletter is for both the Mac and GS. I wonder how much interest
there would be in that.  12 pages and the GS gets 2 or 3.  I write most of
what's in it and will have to rely more heavily on online posts.  

I have the last Apple Sac Newsletter.  The editor says he used to log onto
Genie and in less than two hours download the DOM and the monthly
GenieLamp Magazines for the Mac and Apple II.  In the end it took him days
of tedious work to search the internet for interesting reprintable
material. He didn't have the time or other support to do it anymore.  The
last Apple Sac newsletter was November 1996.  We haven't been faring much
better. Matthew wrote a lot of really good things his tenure as GS SIG.
A page at best of origional material.  I don't have the experience or
knoweldge to do that.  We encourage other members to write. We ask for
something simple like writing about a favorite program. No response.

It used to be that the club was focused on software and gadgets.  We
sometimes got discounts on things through a group purchase. There was less
realiance on the internet in those days. The GS SIG made a mint of money
on the DOM. 

Today one piece of software is a big deal.  We did get a video tape of Joe
Kohn's presentation last meeting. There was a second video cam but no one
to work it so we have a video of the GS monitor for 2 hours and Joe's
voice.  I think it is worth rendering to an audio tape for the commentary.
I need to review it and get a final time before I do more with it.  I wish
I knew more about using the video digitizer and video overlay cards and
Hyperstudio.   That way we could beef up the video.  Maybe put a picture
of Joe in it. All we captured was a silhouette of his hair for posterity
:-)  

We do have a video library for the GS.

Sandy