>If we do not allow CCs to accept cash, how can we allow them to accept >merchandise, such as the SK Census materials?? The exact same way we can allow, and always have allowed, CC's to accept donations of web hosting services and donations of labor - by specifically writing in the By-Laws that it is allowed. If what you are suggesting is that it is improper to allow one but not the other, then we could poll the SC's and CC's as to whether they would prefer some other amendment, to wit, one that is even stricter than the current By-Law, prohibiting ALL donations, whether of cash, internet services, or resource materials, or instead a more lenient one (like some CC's interpreted the current By-Law to be), that allows donations of cash to reimburse for copying and transcription expenses. Either way would treat all contributions the same no matter what is being contributed. But the impression I got from the discussion on the SC list is that most Project members find donations of materials for transcription to be appropriate, and donations of cash to be inappropriate. It would be kind of weird, in my opinion, to say that nobody could send a CC a book of biographies that they'd like to see go online. Maybe we could prohibit appeals for the donation of merchandise other than materials to be transcribed and posted? I think that's all that anyone's ever donated or asked to have donated, anyway. // Teri