Good you asked - the membership levels and some ideas on how to contribute are at: http://live.hidden-tech.net/content/view/15 To be clear, this structure is to promote direct help rather than money, we feel there are larger companies in the area far more apply to provide funds if member's of the HT community contribute labor to operated the group and it's programs Rich the WM (for the board) From: "ussailis at shaysnet.com" <ussailis at shaysnet.com> To: az at a-zinternational.com, hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:09:15 -0500 Subject: RE: [Hidden-tech] Thanks to you all on Thanksgiving! What can I do to help? I give $75/yr to the IEEE Consultants' Networks that I belong to, and give a talk or two each year to boot. What does Hidden-Tech need that I can do? Jim Ussailis National Wireless, Inc. jim at nationalwireless.com Original Message: ----------------- From: A - Z International az at a-zinternational.com Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:06:32 -0500 To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: [Hidden-tech] Thanks to you all on Thanksgiving! ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post . ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. Hi all, With Thanksgiving almost here I wanted to say a special thank you to the Hidden-Tech board, voting members and everyone in the network who is part of our phenomenal organization. Some of you will have read that I formally stepped down from the board on Nov. 13 and when the board/steering committee can convene after the holiday, we will all issue a statement. But I want you to know that there are no hard feelings and what I said to the Daily Hampshire Gazette represented the conflict that serving on the board has represented to me, my family and my income -- as well as compromising my roles at the chronicler of the trend. I didn't mention that this fall I started a master's in regional planning/economic developing at UMass and the stress of Hidden-Tech programming, work, family and school was a bit much for anyone -- even a work horse like me. Something had to give. After doing a lot of soul-searching I felt that Hidden-Tech needed some new blood. Founders much learn to exit stage left and let others lead. We have a wonderful, strong board, but they need your help. Right now there are four or five voting members of Hidden-Tech outside of the board (including me). There need to be 1,500-plus voting members for this to be a viable organization. But that means you need to ante up a little time (about two hours a month) and/or a little money (between $150-$500 a year). Hey, I think Hidden-Tech is worth far more and myself and the board have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in work time each year so Hidden-Tech can serve you. As much as money helps, participation is even more valuable in my opinion. Now that's me, not the board speaking. Hidden-Tech will need money for Web development, some back up and even professional staffing, membership building and programming if it is to become a truly viable organization. So, as you approach your heavily laden table, think about Hidden-Tech and what you can do to get involved. Amy Zuckerman may not be on the board any more, but I'm the founder and I'm here to keep my "baby" alive. But I can't do this anymore at the expense of my daughter, Julia, who has suffered this fall from my heavy work load. You'll see me at events most of the time and even helping out, though probably not at the door and not as your "leader." Even so, you will find me available to chat, provide advice, and be there as a buddy. And, hey, like you, I need to build my business, so don't hesitate to track me down. With love and caring, Amy Zuckerman Hidden-Tech Founder _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . Subject: confirm 95f795478027637a21ee1b54f4f082a16b7ca319 From: hidden-discuss-request at lists.hidden-tech.net If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply. ----- End forwarded message -----