Subject: [SDF] Thank you everyone!

Just wanted to say thank you to the 21 (or 22?) people who came by yesterday.
We had an average of 15 out of 41 unique viewers on the live stream.

I've edited the presentation and have posted it on SDF's Peertube instance:
https://toobnix.org/w/ozjGgBQ28iYsLTNbrczPVo

It was great to chat with everyone and hear ideas about the possibilities
we have as a community.  I sincerely believe that an engineering lab
approach could strategically poise us to not only do our own computer
museum if we so wished, but allow us to support traditional museums that
want authentic interactives and often budget to outsource exhibit curation
and maintenance work. 

Aside from regular day to day activities at the space, I'd like to offer to
host a semi-annual gathering just like we had yesterday as things develop.

For those interested in converting to the quarterly membership/sponsorships
please let me know if you need assistance.

As far as funding is concerned I'd like to provide a simple report for the
end of each month documenting our basic expenses, membership dues and 
highlight new member/membership conversions beyond the Bootstrap membership.

I'll do this one a couple of days early as we're still finding our footing
funding wise (I want to give you an incentive to convert!)  August report 
will be more refined and go out first week of September.  I'll work with
Jason so that we can have a mechanism to publish these on the website.

================
July 2024 Report
================
New members:            8 for a total of 160
Membership conversions: 7 Bootstrap -> JSYS level
                        2 Bootstrap -> EXEC level
New Sponsorships:       1 UUO

July Expenses
-------------
Lease           3381.00
Trash             80.50
Utilities        450.00 (tentative, haven't got a bill yet)
Supplies          80.00
Insurance        487.36 (new policy, monthly premium may be lower)
                -------
                4478.86 
 
July Revenue
------------
Bootstrap        288.00
JFCL               6.00
JRST               7.33
JSYS              84.00
UUO              150.00
Donations         40.00
                -------
                 575.33 

               -3903.53 loss

Ways to support:

cheque/cash:  (Made out to 'SDF')
SDF.ORG
Attn: Vintage Systems
PO BOX 17355
Seattle WA 98127

paypal:  vintagesystems@sdf.org  (use for donations or manual membership dues)

Subscriptions: https://icm.museum/join.html

Crypto is an option, please contact membership@sdf.org for details.

Thank you everyone!