Who wants to purchase A.org?

[arnljot]

I would pledge $100 on the following conditions:

1) The current moderators stay on for at least 12 months
2) All monies that are gathered towards the purchase of this site are counted as donations to a Non Profit Organization called "Amiga Org" in the US, Canada or UK.
3) This new Non Profit Organization has members off this site, and selects a Board of Trustees.
4) All members of Amiga.org have a vote to select members to the Board of Trustees
5) Only paying members ($20 premium member fee "@amiga.org" are eligible to Board of Trustees)
6) The board is eight members. The Board elects one chairman who has 2x vote in case of a tie

I'd ask power-2-people or Wayne to hold the donations until it reaches $10,000. And as soon as the Non Profit Org is established, with a board and chairman. He'd take the $10,000 and transfer all legal rights to the Non Profit Organization.

I will not participate in any corporated attempt (shareholders), it'll just be messy. But a self owning Non Profit Organization is the way to go.

Simple? :-)

[arnljot]

@Wayne

To my understanding, purchasers of this site gets the following:

1) Google revenue
2) Members revenue (donations and membership)
3) Site and content (software and intelectual property)
4) Amiga.org brand and rights.

That's fairly simple to grasp.

But,

Earlier you have stated that Amiga.org is the only Amiga site around with written permission from the old Commodore Amiga to use the Amiga name.

What else does this permission give? Rights to use logos to brand the site? What about Amiga Org Merchandise?

I'm curious, because I think there's more than just the obvious here. This site has been around some time, and was founded while the sun was still shining, so perhaps there are some gems in papers in a drawer somewhere or under a chair?

[arnljot]

You forgot to add a banana republic, a Borg collective, a pyramid scheme, a Sharia court system and a socialist state to the list. All options are available.....

Non profit or Borg Collective. Those two have my support.

[arnljot]

With this [ATTACH]142[/ATTACH] maybe we can make some headway toward organizing the structure that will support the site and be responsible for the purchase and maintenance of the site for the future.


Edit:  Who wants to work with me in setting up a Non-Profit organization to purchase Amiga.org, set up a 3 to 5 member Board of Directors who will elect a new webmaster, keep or elect new moderators, and be responsible for answering to the thousands of members here when they complain?  I do not wish to be the only member here working on setting this up.

2nd Edit: If one of the moderators, or Wayne wants to set up a way to accept nominations for the Board of Directors for the Non-Profit organization that could use the voting engine of the site, that would be acceptable to me.  I will just assist the Board in setting up the Non-Profit organization as a free consultant, or as a Board Member, if elected.

I can pledge money as I said to such an effort. I can also add some elbow grease. My day job is j2ee developer/architect. And previously I wasted two years on PHP ;-)