Coordinators Report for February 2009
General News
Still quite busy. We are still being mentioned quite frequently on radio station magic 1278 - this has resulted in a big increase in people coming to the shop or enquiring about our computers.
While we have been receiving donations from individuals there have not been too many from companies. January and February are usually slow months, hopefully this will pick up soon. In any case it has given us a chance to get some room back so we can do some stock rotation.
A worker from the Ashburton, Ashwood & Chadstone Neighbourhood Renewal Project came in to get a copy of our standard distro. They will be using it on computers donated to them by the Dept of Human Services. They cited high software costs as the reason they were looking at open source software. The computers will be given free to pensioners living in the area.
Welcome to new volunteers Liban, Bill, Jeff and Michael, we look forward to working with you.
In the coming months we will be doing some more public access network roll outs. Darebin are revamping their network at Agg st (going from dial up to broadband) and Footscray is almost ready to go too.
Computers Out
To date all of the computers given out in 2009 have been to individuals. There have been around 2 or 3 returns.
January 09
60: also 14 ebay/shop sales
There seems to be a discrepancy with what the stock list says and how much paperwork there is. The stock list has 64 computers listed as sold. 1 was a laptop that was recycled due to dying. Odd.
February 09
37: also 11 ebay/shop sales (to date)
We expect to provide 7 computers to VCSN in late February and another 11 in the middle of March for a Linuxchix "building PC's' event for women.
Total Computers Out Year TD: 97 : 25 ebay/shop
Income
January
$6482.35 + $245.07 ING Interest: =$ 6727.42
February TD
$5421.21 + $140.24 ING Interest TD
Outstanding invoices: Final WFD payment for project just ended. Around $7500. Another $600-800 in other invoices.
Account Balances as of February 23rd 2009:
ING: $55938.26
Westpac: $5300.86 (ING transfer of $2800 in transit)
Total: $61239.12
