[CSL board] Fundraising dan revised

[Dan MacNeil]

When I worked at Habitat, there was a guy "Richter", who had the word
from God to get on his bicycle, travel around the country and spread the
good news of Jesus. As I understand Richter, God also wanted people to
tithe to support Richter's mission.

A couple times he came up to visit us up in Lowell. Unfortunately (?)
after Laura suggested that maybe God wanted Richter to get a job,
Richter decided not to visit us any more.

I think the CSL would work better if I could quit my day job, but given
Richter's example, I have my doubts.

My big questions for the board meeting:

    Is it worth $16,000 to have my full time attention for a year?

    If so, can we raise $8,000 by May 01 2006 to cover 6 months
    of salary, freeing up time for more fundraising?

$16,000 is what the CS Dept pays me per year. With this money and a lot
of support from Laura, I've  volunteered full time for the past 4 years.
Our work is very satisfying, my support is solid. I can volunteer at
this level for quite a few more years.

But...

Fifty years from now, I'm unlikely to be fit to be fearless leader. 16K
might not be enough to sustain somebody who isn't married to Laura.
However, it is a start...

With Ken's (my boss') blessing I spend at least half my time time at
the day job working on CSL stuff. At least in theory, paying me to work
full time at the lab will only free up 10 more hours a week.

The problem is that these 10 hours are broken up in to small chunks and
while I'm allowed to be idle, I need to be on site. It is hard sometimes
to concentrate and I miss opportunities like 501 tech club or the Perl
Mongers.

A 2-3 hour block of uninterrupted time every day would be a huge help.

Except for the time I blow off, I'm on the clock 9am to 9pm which is
usually fine. (I like the work.) Occasionally, it is not fine and I find
myself being less accepting of cadre's little quirks than I might
otherwise be.