AUGD: Re: Since we're dreaming here
AUGD: Re: Since we're dreaming here
- Subject: AUGD: Re: Since we're dreaming here
- From: Rick Ortiz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:26:47 -1000
Aloha Nigel,
Though I agree with you on the way some of the responses have sounded, I
cannot agree with you in regards to "MUGers" working for free for Apple. We
are volunteers for our user groups. Plain and simple. As a user group member
we are not volunteers for Apple but our group. Now that we have established
that we are volunteers and not working for free for Apple, I would like to
expand on what volunteering is really about. The definition of volunteering
is, "One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will."
Having worked with volunteers in the non-profit world for over 8 years, I
have learned that the definition goes beyond this to include, "not expecting
rewards, thanks, or recognition for their efforts."
If you are volunteering with the expectation of receiving ANYTHING in
return, from anyone, then you have volunteered for the wrong reasons. It is
like the holiday season. Do you give gifts with the expectation of receiving
gifts in return? If you do, why buy gifts for others. Just go buy yourself
something, then you know you are getting something.
The volunteers I have managed that had the expectation of something in
return, have tended to have mediocre at best experiences. The volunteers who
came in giving all of themselves, have had some of the best rewards given to
them, without expectation.
In regards to what Apple has given our user groups lets discuss this
(following your response to the Rolling Stones). Apple has given our groups
the ability to earn a free .Mac account, they have given us free NFR copies
of OS X both Panther and Tiger and iLife '05. That is just recently.
Hope this puts things into perspective.
-Rick Ortiz
President-Maui Apple Users Society
Member-Apple User Group Advisory Board
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