dMw Community Funds / Donations

[TeaLeaf]

Note to self:  add the LAN funds to this thread. :blush:

TL.

[Penfold]

I'm sure you're just waiting for the rest of the LAN t-shirt money to come in before posting. :narnar:

Should be this week.

PEN

[DuVeL]

Should be allright hopefully...:flirty:

[TeaLeaf]

Community Fund: £334.30 and $4.53

Changes:
Contribution to Funds from LAN: £583.65
Paypal donation received: £5.00 GBP
Less Paypal fees:  -£0.37 GBP
Net Amount: £4.63 GBP

The dMw Community Account now has a balance of £922.58 and $4.53

TL.

The $ funds are retained for the time being in dollars as there is a cost to convert to sterling.  Should there be an opportune moment to avoid charges it will be changed.

[Gone_Away]

Like Wow!!

[Penfold]

TL,

I've also just sent you the residue amount for the postal polo shirts.

Panned out as:

Income & Donation - Shirt - Whitey = shirt and Donation = £30 - less c £2.50 p+p = £27.50
Income & Donation - Shirt - BB =  shirt and Donation £18 - £2.50 p+p = £15.50 (and paid for new shirt order for BBB t/c)
Income & Donation - Shirt - LeRouge = £21 less paypal fee and p+p to Israel = £15
Income & Donation - 2 x Shirts - DuVel = £40 less p+p to NL = £34.52

Thanks guys!

Total transferred to LAN Account: £92.52

PEN

[delanvital]

Like Wow!!

:withstupid:

[Anonymous]

Like Wow!!

No it is not my type of game :narnar:

:getmecoat:

[TeaLeaf]

Server maintenance, management & hosting costs now paid until 1 May 2008
£240 for previous 6 months
£270 for next 6 months

The dMw Paypal account has a numbe rof donatiions received which I have been tardy in either collecting from Paypal or recording here in this thread.  I'll make an effort to update this thread prior to the LAN.  Apologies for the delay.

TL.

[Penfold]

I thought I'd also post the LAN a/c info here for the record.

Here are the accounts for LAN XII.

LAN fees  29 x £15 = £435 (There were 31 attendees - Sulky had his fees returned for spending hours fixing other people's machines and TL fees to come).
Misc revenue = £109
This was from:
Sales of Syrupwaffles = £45
Two x LAN poloshirts = £30 (Smilodon & Jamoe)
Sales of games Prey & Stalker = £13
Donations from People inc. Duvel, Gorion & Bob = £21

Total Money in = £559
Money out - £75 for prizes paid back to Sheepy.

NET PROFITS - £484
TL is adding his fees separately so I have sent £469 to server funds.

Thanks to everyone.

PEN.

PS. On behalf of the server fund I would like to add particular thanks to DuVeL. Not only did he contribute the funds raised from the sales of syrupwaffles to the Server funds (£45) but also donated other cash. His generosity therefore raised over £50 for the server fund ! :thumbup:

PEN

[TeaLeaf]

Well, I missed my self-imposed LAN deadline and all I can do is offer my apologies.  Lethargy and work got in the way of me actually reconciling things for the account.
(apologies for the formatting, but it looks fine in a spreadsheet!)

Starting Balance: £922.58 and $4.53

Changes:

25/05/2007     -     -     92.52   from LAN XI
30/05/2007   5.00   -0.37   4.63   FO'S
06/07/2007   5.00   -0.37   4.63   FO'S
03/08/2007   5.00   -0.37   4.63   FO'S
14/08/2007   5.00   -0.37   4.63   FO'S
03/09/2007   5.00   -0.37   4.63   FO'S
03/09/2007   10.00   -0.54   9.46   DH
03/09/2007   5.00   -0.40   4.60   JK
12/09/2007   10.00   -0.54   9.46   JR
19/09/2007   1.00   -0.24   0.76   JvdH
19/09/2007   1.00   -0.24   0.76   JvdH
27/09/2007   -     -     11.19     Amazon.co.uk
20/09/2007   1.00   -0.24   0.76   mvdh
26/09/2007   10.00   -0.59   9.71   mvdh
27/09/2007   1.00   -0.24   0.76   mvdh
03/10/2007   10.00   -0.59   9.71   mvdh
08/10/2007   25.00   -1.18   23.82   VB
19/10/2007   5.00   -0.37   4.63   DH
31/10/2007   -     -    -240.00 hosting costs
31/10/2007   -     -    -270.00 hosting costs
15/11/2007   20.00   -0.88   19.12   RA
15/11/2007   1.00   -0.23   0.77   RA
19/11/2007   10.00   -0.54   9.46   SF
29/11/2007          469.00   LAN XII
29/11/2007           15.00   TL LAN fee
28/11/2007   10.00   -0.54   9.46    DH
10/12/2007   1.00   -0.23   0.77    kk

(Total Paypal receipts £146, total paypal fees -£9.44)

The dMw Community Account now has a balance of £1,137.45 and $4.53

Amazon again has provided good income via our affiliate link.  I realise that other purchases may have been made via other affiliates, but please be aware that most affiliates have a minimum distribution amount which can often equate to £50 or so.  In the period to date we received only the one payment from Amazon and none from any other affiliate. Please keep using the posted affiliate links as it does help the community in the long term!

A big thank you to those members who have contributed to the runnning costs of the commmunity.  Your support (whether by attending our LAN parties, purchasing via an affiliate link, buying the t-shirts or just by direct donation) allow us to keep our facilities up to date and and to keep providing the gaming environment we all enjoy so much.  Members, on behalf of the Admins, I salute you!  Thank you.

Finally, the existing LAN server is actually Oldbloke's (not the community's) and it is also getting more than long in the tooth for hosting today's games servers, let alone some of the forthcoming games servers that we will no doubt be wanting to play at LAN XIII.  The Admins have therefore decided to utilise some of these funds to purchase a new LAN server.  More info on this will follow when final decisions on spec etc have been made.


TL.

The $ funds are retained for the time being in dollars as there is a cost to convert to sterling.  Should there be an opportune moment to avoid charges it will be changed.

[TeaLeaf]

Payments made:
LAN server purchase: £552.11
LAN Server NIC purchase £31.35
Forum Software renewal fee £19.98

The dMw Community Account now has a balance of £534.01 and $4.53

Due to a recent hardware failure we will be looking at replacing BA2 (out second rack server that runs some of our services) in the very near future.  More details will follow.


TL.

[GhostMjr]

Payments made:
LAN server purchase: £552.11
LAN Server NIC purchase £31.35
Forum Software renewal fee £19.98

The dMw Community Account now has a balance of £534.01 and $4.53

Due to a recent hardware failure we will be looking at replacing BA2 (out second rack server that runs some of our services) in the very near future.  More details will follow.


TL.

May i ask what the specs of the lan server are . Bit geeky i know but i bet its good kit .

[TeaLeaf]

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz, 4GB ram, 2 x SATAII HDDs in RAID 0 with a PCIe Gigabit NIC in addition to onboard Gigabit.

TL.

[TeaLeaf]

Contributions to Funds:
LAN XIII: £615.69

The dMw Community Account now has a balance of £1,149.70 and $4.53

The purchase of the replacement for BA2 is being finalised at the moment.  
Hosting fees are due in the next month and we are considering the acquisition of switches to replace the fairly old (and increasingly often failing) switches we use at our LANs.  More details will follow.

To date the communtiy funds have been held in a separate personal account of mine.  This is something I have long wanted to change and after a few aborted attempts (due to numpty bank administration requirements) the community finally managed to open a Club/Association account with LloydsTSB last week whilst OB & I were in the same town and could sign documents at the same time etc.  We are currently awaiting confirmatory paperwork for the account to arrive and provide details such as the account number etc.  When this is finalised we will move all funds from the account in my sole name to the new community account and change the Paypal contribution buttons etc.  Signatories to the account are Oldbloke and me.  Details of the account will be posted when available.

TL.