So I guess the answer is so that we can cover costs and pay for other things too. sh --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, S. Hieber wrote: > > > If at 70 we barely broke even, that suggets we are > making > > money now. > > Well, we probably are this year. > > Last year we had to spend $150 extra for Amano, and half > of $150 for the > convention pictures. We probably did make a little > money, though. > > And this is fine by me. We might end up using it to > webconference the > awards announcement some year. We might use it to > increase the AGA > website bandwidth some more. > > We have never claimed we wouldn't use the contest fees to > do other things > for the AGA -- just like we don't claim to use revenue > from conventions or > book sales to run only other conventions or book sales. > About the only > money we CAN'T do "other things" with is the AGA > membership, just because > it's not enough to break even on TAG yet. But we would > if we could. > > - Erik > > -- > Erik Olson > erik at thekrib dot com > _______________________________________________ > AGA-mcm mailing list > AGA-mcm@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm > _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm