Linda,
Sorry, but your mixing apples and oranges. You make it sound as if I'm
trying to make myself out as being better that other county coordinators.
I'd never stoop to that. PA has a great bunch of coordinators and I look
around what some of them are doing and have accomplished. I'm really
impressed. Have I ever stated that the sponsorship that I solicit is for
personal reimbursement? It is NOT FOR MY PERSONAL BENFIT. CAN I SAY IT
ANYMORE CLEARLY?????? NO, it pays for the webspace. I would never seek
personal reimbursement to support my counties. If I were hosting a county
on the webspace provided by GTE as a part of my dialup service and were
soliciting for sponsors then I would deserve to be lynched. So, I would
assume by your line of reasoning that if Brian were hosting a county page
then he could not have a page requesting sponsorship for Rootsweb? How
absurd.
We've got one transcription project going on that is costing some money for
copying and mailing and you betcha we've let folks that want to be involved
with it the anticipated cost. We just had a great meeting with one of the
County Historical Societies and made a major breakthrough on a
collaborative effort. There's going to be a cost involved, wanna guess if
I'll ask for donations for that? The Historical Society doesn't have the
budget for it.
One thing that is increasingly clear is that one cannot have a difference
of opinion without being made to look like the bad guy.
Nate
Linda Lewis wrote:
Nate, there are hundreds of volunteers, that are collecting data,
spending their own money, and uploading it for free access to
researchers. If each one of them starting asking for financial
reimbursement, and/or donations to defray thier personal expenditures,
don't you think the USGenWeb Project would look a leeeetle bit
commercial? Or.. wouldn't it look like volunteers are taking advantage
of being part of the Project?
The USGenWeb Project has a reputation of being a VOLUNTEER effort, with
no financial benefit to any one of us. How many of us have spent
hundreds of dollars on photocopies, postage, etc etc for this
coordinated effort to help researchers? LOTS!! We are not asking for
reimbursement.
Linda