I've been thinking about this quite a bit, if anyone has seen the website for the Computer History Museum in California, that place both makes me drool and kind of disgusted at the same time. It's beautiful! Utterly beautiful, the museum reminds me of places like the Franklin Institute, or other science museums. Very high tech displays displaying the history of the vintage tech. The fact that they have one of the Google Robotic Cars I was like WOAH! That's absolutely awesome! We all know that an organization like that must have gotten quite a bit in corporate funding to help setup their displays. And I honestly feel that corporate funding from companies like AT&T, Verizon, IBM, Lockheed, and others would likely be the most viable way to a high volume capable museum to appear on the east coast for the Federation. We could also have other types of fund raisers, from soliciting local businesses, apply for various grants from the government, online auctions of surplus (which personally I despise the idea of doing, I'd rather keep the surplus as property of the federation, if we want something to do with something we have 10 or more of, maybe have classes on working on them, that way we have units for spares/parts/etc), crowdfunding is also a possibility for certain projects. I'm sure there are other ways I haven't mentioned or even considered, these are a few that came off the top of my head. We have to remember, VCF is a Non-Profit CORPORATION, note the 3rd word, yes, it's an organization, but it's a corporation, a business, Which means, any "profit" goes towards furthering the primary goals of the organization, as opposed to lining the pockets of the individuals in a traditional corporation. So, there's nothing wrong with the museum and VCF trying to make money, it's just what they do with the money above the operating expenses that differs from a regular business. And I'm sure Corey can back me up on that. So, we don't have to "live" like we only have enough to rub 2 sticks together (or sit behind some big iron) to keep warm, that's why this internal only fundraiser for the stools confused the living hell out of me. I've talked to Evan about a few "BIG" idea for the future to bring up to the board, dunno if he did or not, but with a few good grants or corporate investments from some companies that we may be able to reel in, we could make this a lot more fun, as well as a lot more popular. Let's teach as many of the students of today about the computers of yesterday!!! Joseph Oprysko -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?