Who wants to purchase A.org?

[Argo]

If this is in any way serious, the way to go is to set up a non-profit organization for the purpose of purchasing and running this Amiga Community site. This entity would take tax deductable donations, run fundraisers, and run other promotions to fund the site. This means that there would be a board of directors, a site admin plus moderator staff, and possibly paid membership that would confir voting rights along with other perks.
I feel to do otherwise is to bring chaos and disaster. I would hope Wayne would refuse any offers other than sole ownership or like the above.  There simply needs to be organization.

[Pyromania]

@Karlos

How the h*ll did you get over 12,000 posts? Do you live here and have your own special room?

[Argo]

No more so than Bloodline!

[J-Golden]

Ok, I've been out in the field (literally) for several weeks to come back and see this thread title.  Is A.ORG getting yanked?  Stolen?  Did we not reserve the what-ever-its-called-so we-can-have-the-name-Amiga.ORG only to have it stolen by Spanish Fem. Nazi?  Please shed some light as The first few post in the thread don't...

TANKZ!

[the_leander]

If this is in any way serious, the way to go is to set up a non-profit organization for the purpose of purchasing and running this Amiga Community site. This entity would take tax deductable donations, run fundraisers, and run other promotions to fund the site. This means that there would be a board of directors, a site admin plus moderator staff, and possibly paid membership that would confir voting rights along with other perks.
I feel to do otherwise is to bring chaos and disaster. I would hope Wayne would refuse any offers other than sole ownership or like the above.  There simply needs to be organization.

Ok that answers what I was asking earlier.

I think I could certainly get along with that. As for choosing a board of directors...

Good luck

[kickstart]

@Karlos

How the h*ll did you get over 12,000 posts? Do you live here and have your own special room?

Maybe with non sense chat with bloodine lke at the start of this thread.

[amigadave]

Ok, I've been out in the field (literally) for several weeks to come back and see this thread title.  Is A.ORG getting yanked?  Stolen?  Did we not reserve the what-ever-its-called-so we-can-have-the-name-Amiga.ORG only to have it stolen by Spanish Fem. Nazi?  Please shed some light as The first few post in the thread don't...

TANKZ!

To explain, read the thread from Wayne regarding the future of A.org.  He wants out, but has no intention of closing the site, so he wants to sell it to an appropriate buyer who intends to keep it running (hopefully much the same way it has been run for the past 15 years).

[TheMagicM]

@Karlos

How the h*ll did you get over 12,000 posts? Do you live here and have your own special room?

LOL.. its probably the SQL 'update' command that had something  to do with it  

[the_leander]

LOL.. its probably the SQL 'update' command that had something  to do with it  

Are you suggesting that he inflated his numbers?!

:roflmao:

[TheMagicM]

Are you suggesting that he inflated his numbers?!

:roflmao:

LOL... you know SQL works wonders.  I can probably hit 1,000,000 posts in 1 line of SQL code.

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As for this thread... I think its worth $10k to the right group of people.  I have good memories of Wayne & AO going back to when I used to get *EMAILS* with AO and Amiga updates.  Wayne was my link to the Amiga world.  I always looked forward to getting those emails at work.  Wayne f'n rocks..I hope Wayne gets what he has earned over these years.  Putting up with Amiga drama queens itself is worth at least $9k.

Thank you Wayne and thank you for putting up with a not so "politically correct" and sometimes "firing from the hip" moderator in myself.

-Alex

[Argo]

Are you suggesting that he inflated his numbers?!

:roflmao:

He who controls the database, controls the post counts!

[Marcb]

Depending on the model adopted I'll chip in $100...

[Karlos]

@the_magic_m/argo

Oi, that's defamation, that is!

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1869

As you can see, I hit 10,000 posts in Jan 2007. I took a bit of a sabbatical since and only really started posting again fairly recently. I suspect bloodline will overtake me soon enough.

[Karlos]

Maybe with non sense chat with bloodine lke at the start of this thread.

I was about to take exception to that, but on reflection you're probably right. I would estimate that probably only half of my posts are amiga related. Though, expect that's equally true of most members.

Anyway, back to the point. If a suitable model is put in place, I'd be prepared to chip in to the buyout.

[bloodline]

I was about to take exception to that, but on reflection you're probably right. I would estimate that probably only half of my posts are amiga related. Though, expect that's equally true of most members.

All work and no play makes Karlos a dull boy!

Anyway, back to the point. If a suitable model is put in place, I'd be prepared to chip in to the buyout.

Ditto

[gertsy]

Time to use the voting system for something serious.!!!!
A future model for AOs existence.
We could go an anarco-sydicalist commune, a nominated autocracy, a fascist dictatorship, a democracy(god forbid), a corporate structure, a council/club structure.
President, Secretary, Technical Officer, Stakeholder Board, Trust Account (Kitty), Financial membership, Generic membership. So many considerations.
At the moment it is clear there needs to be a nominated initial leadership to work with Wayne in the transition planning.  Who?

He/She with the highest posts ?
He/She with the biggest bid?
Existing Moderators?

Frodo?
(though he does not know the way..)