On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
If you are of the opinion that things can be done differently, please explain how. A printer makes money, that is how he earns his crust. So how would non-profit printing work. Does it exist ? You are also under the impression that "we" are meeting our targets.. What do you know of the financial position of the French chapter and what do you know of its ambitions ?
However you cut it this is advertising pure and simple. Yes it's buried behind a convenience function and I have no doubt the French chapter are doing all manner of interesting and constructive things, but who's to decide what is and what is not appropriate? If it's such a good idea, why is it not deployed centrally (with appropriate policies) so all chapters can take advantage of it (safely)?
Anyway how WMF interacts with its chapters is not the conversation I joined the list to contribute to so I'll leave it to you guys to nut it out between yourselves. Just bear in mind that the reputation of the organisation as a whole is easily tarnished by the wrong well-intended initiative and the proceeds are a drop in the ocean compared to what is raised by donation and that a fraction of what is theoretically possible.
Sam (who's often enough in france to consider joining the chapter)