Cyberspace Communications finances for August 2001

Sep 5 01:38 UTC 2001

Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances
through August 31st, 2001.

Beginning Balance     $4,634.80

Credits                 $276.00         Member contributions
                         $84.00         Proceeds from the 6th Grex Auction
                         $18.00         Proceeds from the Grex Store
                   ------------
                        $378.00

Debits                   $72.93         Pumpkin Rent for September
                         $45.97         Electricity for August
                        $171.38         Phone Bill
                        $135.00         DSL August 15 through September 15
                         $40.00         CardService fee for July
                   ------------
                        $465.28

Ending Balance        $4,547.52

Our current balance breaks down as follows:

$4,345.66               General Fund
  $141.86               Silly Hat Fund
   $60.00               Spare Parts Fund

Here was the activity in the Grex store:

                         Cash                                    Stock
                     ---------                                ---------
Beginning balances    $131.40                                  $171.30
Items sold             $18.00    <------------------------      ($9.20)
                     ---------                                ---------
Ending balances       $149.40                                  $162.10

We had one new member (gsibbery) in August.  We are currently at 94 members, 
83 of whom are paid through at least September 15th.  (The others expired 
recently and are in a grace period.)

Notes:

- I was out of town for most of the month, and janc was stand-in treasurer.  
Thanks Jan!

Thanks to everyone who contributed in August:

anderyn, bruin, coyote, gjharb, gsibbery, jiffer, kami, n8rxs, scott, and 
valerie.

Thanks everyone!

If you or your institution would like to become a member of Grex, it only
costs $6/month or $60/year.  Send money to:

Cyberspace Communications
P. O. Box 4432
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432

If you pay by cash or money order, please include a photocopy of some form of 
ID.  I can't add you to the rolls without ID.  (If you pay with a personal 
check that has your name pre-printed on it, we consider that a good enough 
ID.)  Type !support or see http://www.cyberspace.org/member.html for more 
info.

response 2 of 30:

Sep 5 21:50 UTC 2001

Indeed, you didn't.

response 4 of 30:

Sep 5 23:34 UTC 2001

check that..way up from july anyway, unless Im misreading, grex paid
$42 or so phone bill in July.  maybe that was a partial bill or
something

response 6 of 30:

Sep 6 02:21 UTC 2001

Right.  I think I said in the July report that we could expect future bills
to be about $179.

response 8 of 30:

Sep 6 03:38 UTC 2001

Hardly.

response 10 of 30:

Sep 26 15:12 UTC 2001

I put this in Agora, but I'll put it here too.  Grex received a very large
check yesterday, from an anonymous donor.  It's for $1024, and it's
earmarked "to be used towards improving Grex's hardware and software
infrastructure."  We've never received a check this big before. 

response 12 of 30:

Sep 26 18:03 UTC 2001

Wow indeed!  Many thanks to whoever it is.   (The person evidently
knows about powers of 2...)

response 14 of 30:

Sep 26 23:17 UTC 2001

Should we put a Dear Anonymous Donor......*T*H*A*N*K* *Y*O*U*.... message
in our motd?

response 16 of 30:

Sep 27 15:16 UTC 2001

Possibly Mark knows the name of the 'anonymous' donor as checks generally
require some sort of signature.  (Was this  a money order?).

response 18 of 30:

Sep 27 16:17 UTC 2001

re: 12 ... either the extremely generous individual knows about powers of 2,
or he or she remembers the old Dr Pepper advertisments. :) 

response 20 of 30:

Sep 27 18:18 UTC 2001

I would presume that if the donor had specific desires beyond "buy hardware
and software with it" and "don't disclose who I am," they would have made
those intentions clear.

response 22 of 30:

Sep 28 00:06 UTC 2001

The donor does not have specific plans for the money, but trusts the Grex
board and staff to spend it wisely.  I'll use the money to start the
"infrastructure fund", which will get a line on the treasurer's report each
month, so we can't forget about it.

response 24 of 30:

Sep 28 04:10 UTC 2001

The first step is adding it to the report, so we can see when and where it
gets spent.