Who wants to purchase A.org?

[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..)

[motorollin]

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[DiskDoctor]

I think the longer we talk the closer the chance that some Amiga-related party (company or team) transfers the money to Wayne's account.

Which isn't a bad way out I suppose... Merging aorg forum with some particular Amiga player...

Anyway my piece of engagement would be 50$.

[Boot_WB]

Total pledged so far = $3075

Running total is being kept in post #4 of this thread.

Disclaimer: assumes that all the pledges are serious, and that we can all agree on some common sense solution for running the site, for example Wayne's suggestion in post #24 of this thread.
NB - If I've missed any pledges, please let me know by PM. I'm not reading every damn post every time, just skimming through. Similarly if you change your pledge by editing an existing post.

EDIT: Wow, my 1000th post! Who'da thunk it.

[SilvrDrgn]

Sorry for my late post.  I will pledge a minimum of $250, but if I come up with more, I'll give more.

[bloodline]

Total pledged so far = $3075

Running total is being kept in post #4 of this thread.

Disclaimer: assumes that all the pledges are serious, and that we can all agree on some common sense solution for running the site, for example Wayne's suggestion in post #24 of this thread.
NB - If I've missed any pledges, please let me know by PM. I'm not reading every damn post every time, just skimming through. Similarly if you change your pledge by editing an existing post.

EDIT: Wow, my 1000th post! Who'da thunk it.

So we are a third of the way there and from less than a third of all users

just set up a poll with several options:

$5
$10
$20
$50
$100
$200
$500
$1000


And see how many pledges we get in each

[graffias79]

Wow the whole thing makes me nervous.  This site contains a lot of very useful information and a lot of images too. I would really hate to see it turn into a nasty p0rn site.

[tone007]

It'd still have lots of images, at least.

[Argo]

So we are a third of the way there and from less than a third of all users

just set up a poll with several options:

$5
$10
$20
$50
$100
$200
$500
$1000


And see how many pledges we get in each

This is sounding more and more like a PBS membership fund-raising drive. Who's in charge? So, say 3000 members here pledge the amount needed, then what? 3000 vote or weighted votes based on pledge amount to decide what gets done? That will be cumbersome if not unmanageable. Like I said there needs to be one buyer or a non-profit entity.
The way this is going, it would be better to try to make it worth Wayne's time by buying memberships as he has set up or just feeding the kitty, or a combination of both.
People's hearts are in the right place. It is nice to see the membership or a large segment of it wanting and working to keep Amiga.org running, but this sort of mob rule isn't going to be workable.

[a1200]

The site has no serious commercial value to me, but I will offer £2,500 for ownership. As this is short of Wayne's target, I would be prepared to share ownership with up to 3 more people. But that's it. Co-ordinating 100+ shareholders across many countries, would be like controlling a wheelbarrow full of frogs.

That's my offer, a little higher than I would have liked but I can see why Wayne is asking so much.

[prowler]

I don't say to much on here but this site is one of the more regular ones I visit to keep up on what is going on and actually post to on occasion. I will help out with at least $100 if that is what is required to keep the site going.

[TrevorDick]

I would also be prepared to contibute to keep Amiga.org online.

TrevorD

[Tumbleweed]

I've just been made redundant and have some money coming as a result. I'm willing to pledge $1000 or more depending on how things are structured.

Weed

[Wayne]

I've just been made redundant and have some money coming as a result. I'm willing to pledge $1000 or more depending on how things are structured.

Weed

Weed,

By "made redundant" do you mean "fired" as the Americans would put it, or is that some other culturalism?   I really don't want anyone throwing their life out on a limb for this.  Especially if you're unemployed..

Wayne

[crawff]

I believe it can only work if a small group or a single person puts up the money.

Anything else would be very difficult to manage. (but not impossible)

[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? :-)