Amazing Facts

[Doug Schuler]

Gianni,

The way I calculate it the donations we've received over the years
come out to less than ten cents per year of e-mail.  (I realize 
that the dollar amount you mentioned is somewhat of a funny number
but even if it's low, the amount of money that people are paying
to support the service is fairly low.) I would hope that users would be 
able to ante up more than that.

BTW, I really appreciate seeing the numbers.  And the membership
number of over 500 is very impressive.  (I hope we can keep them!)

--- Doug

> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 20:56:35 -0800
> From: Gianni Truzzi <gtruzzi at scn.org>
> To: scn at scn.org, scna-board at scn.org
> Subject: Amazing Facts
> 
> To all of our faithful volunteers:
> 
> I have just completed transferring all of the registration records and
> available donation records into an Access database for easier
> record-keeping by the management company we have just engaged to process
> our registration forms and incoming donations.
> 
> This exercise has been quite eye-opening. The resulting database shows
> the following results of SCN's collective effort over the last five
> years, which I would like to share with you:
> 
>     E-mail accounts:     16,702
>     SCN Users:           15,970 (a person may have more than one
> account).
>     Donations:              6,679 (*)
>     Current Members:  514
> 
> (*) counts only those that came with a registration or were applied to
> an SCNA membership since 12/1/97. Non-registration donations prior to
> that I deemed not material to current needs. If I counted all of them, I
> suspect the number would be nearly double.
> 
> I can't help but reflect on what a staggering achievement this is. Not
> all of those e-mail accounts reflects a currently active and satisfied
> user, of course. But each one of those accounts had to be processed and
> created. That's an enormous number of people who have walked through our
> door.
> 
> Allow me to put this in some perspective. According to a recent article
> in the Seattle Times, Speakeasy boasts 2,200 (paying) users. We, on the
> other hand, are now giving out that many e-mail accounts EACH YEAR! And
> we do all of this with no paid staff. This is *entirely* the product of
> our dedicated volunteers, that is, ALL OF YOU.
> 
> We certainly beat ourselves about the head enough about what we are not
> doing, what we ought to be doing, what we could be doing better. And
> this may be all true. But we seldom look at what we have achieved. We
> should be very, very proud of ourselves. All of us. The fact that we are
> still going after five years is an accomplishment all by itself. In
> addition, we are doing e-mail training, providing modest support, and
> other activities at the same time. This is truly amazing.
> 
> The fact that we have over 500 members (and yes, I know this is down
> from earlier counts), is also very impressive. Any local organization
> would greatly envy such a large membership base.
> 
> I am very proud to be the President of such an incredible group of
> people. In fact, its humbling, and an honor.
> 
> Your servant,
> 
> Gianni Truzzi
> President
> Seattle Community Network Association
> 
> 
> 
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