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That's where the membership money should go. Not $18,000 on a website which is no better than the old one. If that was how the money was spent even I would pay for a membership!
Membership money was not (directly) spent on the website; that was money left over from sale of the building.
However, we are spending $18,000 per year on the newsletter. In the budget for the upcoming year, that amounts to 100% of our program spending. I've tried a couple of times to start a conversation amongst governors about other possibilities for some/all of this money, although nobody seems interested in talking about it.
Bob Armstrong: The newsletter is fine and good, but only the start of what I'm saying. There's way too much chess happening to even think of covering it all in a newsletter.
The website is part one of a tool for collecting and distributing information nationally. It will take lots of work and lots of ideas from lots of people to reach the possibility. But tell what's going on, give useful information, connect people to groups and events locally, and publicize the big events nationally, and help everyone raise the profile of chess in the general public. There is no way the CFC can do this, but it can become a hub that helps people collectively do this of their own initiative.
The national Federation is in charge in a country with 56 000 licensed Chess players. There is nothing wrong about the Federation being in charge and when I compare the CFC with other Federations, I realize that the CFC is not sufficiently in charge.
For example, here are the Canadian Soccer association (CSA) members obligations. To change to the chess equivalent, replace FIFA by FIDE, CONCACAF by the FIDE Condtiental Association and CSA by CFC. The move to the new new non-profit Act is a great occasion to improve. That does not means that I approve everything in the CSA constitution. Parts of it seems to have been inspired by the Laws of France and are clearly illegal in Quebec.
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Last edited by Pierre Denommee; Monday, 24th September, 2012, 07:16 PM.
I'm not sure if you checked the link I gave you to the CFC " News " Forum. We use that to supplement the Canadian Chess News ( CCN ), the CFC e-newsletter. And all news posts are reproduced on the CFC Website, and on the CFC Facebook page.
Between the two, we have given coverage to all major events across the country, I think. Also many local tournaments ( check out the smaller tournaments I've noted in the news blurbs ).
Not saying we're doing OK, just that we are doing some of it. We'll keep trying!!
Mr. Zeromskis, since when did you believe it was international? On my chess engine, I'm getting some help from friends in Britain, is my chess engine international per se?
Mr. Zeromskis, since when did you believe it was international? On my chess engine, I'm getting some help from friends in Britain, is my chess engine international per se?
Does your engine separate knights and their horses?
The Chess in the Libraries has also gone west somewhat. I believe they have some participation from Calgary, if I'm not mistaken.
And FURTHERMORE, I did not say the money should only go to C in the L project.
I would also be in favour of an annual grant to the Paul Keres Memorial tournament, for example. In other words, ANY group in Canada that created a beneficial event for chess should be supported. This would encourage local and regional initiatives to benefit chess. The Governors or a sub-committee could allocate the funds as they saw fit.
The Keres Memorial does just fine without CFC support. In fact we support the CFC by offering free CFC memberships to new players.
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