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Re: Who owns the stuff, the club or the individaul members?
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:51:45 GMT
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Christopher Masi wrote:
> After looking at WAMALUG's most recent pictures I wondered who owned burp
> mountain? Does a member own it (no I am not looking for a name) or is it
> property of WAMALUG. A more general question is how do most groups handle this?
> I always assumed that there were club dues, clubs would buy stuff, and the
> structures made from those things are Club property. Anything built by an
> individual from that individual's collection could be part of a layout, but the
> item would remain the individual's property. Is that how most clubs do it, or is
> everything privately owned, and the club acts as a place to find trading
> partners or people with whom one can split sets (I want these parts. You want
> those parts. Cool, everyone is happy.)
> Anyway, I was just curious about the internal workings of the clubs.
That's a good question. At the GMLTC, 99% of the bricks are owned by 1 guy, Conan,
and we just play with his bricks. Since many of us have our own large collections,
sometimes people bring their own MOCs to shows and they remain separate.
Personally, I build all of my train MOCs from my own collection, but that's because
I have my own train layout at home.
We have no dues, but informally divide up expenses and make contributions
whenever. For example, J-1 bought an ALPS printer for making decals for our trains
recently. That baby cost him $300. Not all are as generous as he is though...:-)
But overall, the key word is informal. As J-1 so eloquently puts it, "We just like
to build".
-John
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> Thanks,
> Chris
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> --
> PGP public key available upon request.
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