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ajax
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Summary of Grex's financial history
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Nov 15 22:27 UTC 1996 |
The following table summarizes Grex's income and expenses for the months
for which I found a budget report in Grex's co-op or agora conferences.
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totl mmbr misc|totl fone hard rent misc end comments
in dues in | out bill ware &pwr out totl ("=" means includes)
12/92 292 292 -| 329 160 - 164 5 157 2 months phone&power
| bills; rent is free
1/93 216 216 -| 226 138 - 82 42 147 fone=$42 6th phone line
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2/93 230 230 -| 184 96 - 82 6 193
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3/93 252 138 114| 184 96 - 82 6 436 miscin=$104 jcc sale
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4/93 281 156 125| 242 96 - 82 6 551 miscin=$156 phone line
| fundraiser
5/93 191 133 58| 301 96 - 82 107 435 miscout=$95 tshirts,
| mscin=$58 tshirts
6/93 615 340 275| 431 96 - 82 236 619 miscout=$97 tshirts, $98
| publcty; mscin=$56 tshirts
7/93 166 156 5| 199 96 - 82 - 581
(couldn't find 8/93 - 11/93 reports online)
12/93 391 277 -| 227 115 - 107 5 1382 rent&pwr=$25/mo to dungeon
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1/94 210 210 -| 327 215 - 107 5 1265 fone=$100 to ic-net
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2/94 430 348 -|1011 115 757 107 32 602 hw=$757 for modems;
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3/94 1288 658 630| 331 155 - 107 69 1560 mscin=$630 jcc sale, fone=
| $40 icnet. record members!
4/94 322 322 -| 248 135 - 107 6 1634
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5/94 963 376 587| 244 135 - 107 2 2352 miscin=$34 phone fund,
$587 disk fund
(couldn't find 6/94 - 1/95 reports online)
2/95 527 520 7| 914 402 324 55 133 3565 mscout=$83 moving, hw=
| router; phone=install
| charges on next 4 bills
3/95 1500 690 810| 536 286 - 108 118 4693 mscout=$118 dungeon;
| mscin=$774 jcc sales
4/95 527 527 -|2048 318 1591 108 31 3006 mscout=$1591 for sparc
| board & modems
5/95 275 276 -| 487 373 - 108 6 2795
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6/95 1196 922 274| 356 248 - 108 - 3636 mscin unattributed; june
| typically has high dues
7/95 486 376 110| 606 256 157 108 85 3515 mscout=$85 dungeon stuff;
| mscin=$110 t-shirt/mugs
8/95 324 287 37| 347 239 - 108 - 3492 mscin=$37 t-shirt/mugs
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9/95 441 441 -| 985 237 500 108 140 2948 mscout=$115 jcc tables;
| hw=1.2gb hard drive
10/95 1171 815 356| 364 237 - 108 20 3754 mscin=$339 jcc sale; 1st
| regular motd member plug
11/95 406 402 4| 359 244 - 108 7 3801
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12/95 228 228 -|1534 276 1143 108 7 2496 hw=mostly sun 4 stuff
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1/96 496 252 244| 279 266 - 108 5 2613 mscin=$80 modem pledges,
| $164 t-shirts
2/96 1477 1022 455| 687 268 - 108 312 3402 mscin=$455 modem pledges;
| free handbook w/membership
3/96 1220 760 460|1179 258 741 100 79 3443 hw=modems; mscin=jcc;
| mscout=$50 for handbooks
4/96 244 222 21| 392 270 - 108 14 3294
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5/96 337 309 28| 809 395 295 108 11 2822 phone "estimated" (error);
| hw=sun 4 stuf; 2 new lines
6/96 1284 642 642| 409 295 - 108 6 3697 mscin=$512 from auction;
| phone still "estimated"
7/96 480 405 75| 525 338 53 108 26 3652 jul & aug are averaged
| mscin mostly auction
8/96 480 405 75| 525 338 53 108 26 3607
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9/96 959 646 319| 529 314 - 25 200 4186 mscin=$184 auction, $123
| t-shirt; mscout=$123 loan
| to STeve, $67 t-shirts
10/96 752 510 242| 607 344 - 120 115 4331 mscout=$69 moving, $37
| t-shirt; mscin=$202 jcc
A few zero-sum adjustments were made, for example when a modem was
purchased and returned, or a loan was made and repaid, I left it out
of income and expenses, and when checks were deposited in the wrong
month (and noted in reports), i moved them to the proper month.
Since June is the first month in which dues were collected, it is
typically a higher-than-average month for dues collection. This is
still noticable, and was noted in most June financial reports.
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ajax
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response 1 of 7:
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Nov 15 22:29 UTC 1996 |
The reason I compiled these figures was to see if hardware upgrades
seemed to increase membership sales. The Sun 4 upgrade was in mid-
March '96. That month did fairly well for membership dues, but was
followed by very low memberships in April and May. By average
membership dues collections, the Sun 4 upgrade seems to have had no
significant impact. For the 8 months since the upgrade (3/96-10/96),
average dues collected were $487 per month. For the 13 months prior to
the upgrade (2/95-2/96), average dues collected were $520 per month.
Overall, I think the finances are too irregular to determine the
effect that hardware upgrades have on membership dues. It's also hard
to determine when other upgrades went into effect; the month we got new
phone lines or equipment is not necessarily the same month (or year)
they were put into service.
One trend that I did notice is that record months for membership dues
tend to occur when there's a lot of other income. When JCC sales, fund
drives, T-shirt sales, or auctions produced a lot of money, membership
dues also seem to be considerably higher. Just browse down the column
of member dues; if a number is quite a bit higher than nearby months,
look one column to the right, and in almost every case, the misc. income
was high for that month as well. Possible reasons: JCC sales introduce
new members to Grex, or our presence encourages users to become members
(the last sale we didn't have many fliers, and we didn't get as big a
boost, and the 3/93 sale didn't produce this effect either). With fund
drives, people who aren't members might become members rather than donate
to the particular drive. For auctions or T-shirt sales, people might
send in member dues just because they happen to be writing a check to
Grex. Or maybe the "misc. income"-"member dues" relationship is just
a random fluke. :-) Interesting though!
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scott
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response 2 of 7:
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Nov 15 23:44 UTC 1996 |
Wow, thanks, Rob.
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dpc
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response 3 of 7:
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Nov 16 16:05 UTC 1996 |
Terrific work, Rob! I'll see if I can do this for Arbornet.
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popcorn
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response 4 of 7:
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Nov 18 07:04 UTC 1996 |
Thanks Rob -- most impressive!
I'll upload another one of the missing agoras tonight.
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rickyb
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response 5 of 7:
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Nov 18 18:13 UTC 1996 |
Rob da man when it comes to formatting! Great work on info research too!
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popcorn
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response 6 of 7:
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Nov 19 05:11 UTC 1996 |
If it's useful for finding some of the missing treasurer's reports: I've
uploaded Agora 10.
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ajax
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response 7 of 7:
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Nov 20 11:54 UTC 1996 |
The agora10 conference did add three more months of data, including the
highest recorded month of memberships ever, in June of 1994. As with the
earlier noted pattern, there were other non-member things drawing money
that month, too: the JCC sale, and a disk drive fund-raiser.
6/94 1842 1086 756| 687 135 410 107 35 3508 mscin=$214 JCC, $542 disk
| fund, hw=$410 disk & parts
7/94 546 372 174|1322 135 1073 107 7 2732 mscin=$174 disk fund,
| hw=$1073 disk & parts
8/94 1293 582 711| 836 135 - 107 4 3187 mscin=$594 tshirts & mugs,
$115 disk fund
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