Talk about future projects and donation topic

That was done in the BLF Q8 project at the end & has nothing to do with the money this thread is about.

The money in this thread was donated specifically for “Future Projects”. There was no split among ‘Team Members’ with this money because this does not involve a specefic team.

So, according to the accounting record in the OP , there is supposed to be $486.37 in this account.

Either the accounting record needs to be set straight, if it is not correct; or the money needs to be surrendered so it can be put to good use as TA suggested well over 6 months ago.
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Edit: HERE IS A LINK to the “Affiliated Link” money distribution accounting at the end of the Q8 project that was mentioned above.
Again, this has nothing to do with the money in this “Future Projects” account.

Ok, I guess you are right there. Well as you can see, The Miller hasn't been on for 9 months so we may not ever get an answer. I believe I have an email address for him - I could try contacting him.

First, I’m convinced that there is no bad intent from The Miller. He disappeared from BLF overnight (like many others did) and with him the administration of this fund went away from sight.

I had brief contact with him later and it seems nothing terrible happened to him that made him leave BLF.

I’m also convinced that he knows that the consequence of his disappearing for this fund is that in fact the fund is frozen until he does something.

But doing something implies new involvement in BLF for him, which may be a difficult thing if he was all of a sudden completely fed up with the loads of responsibility that he took, left without finishing and know that people were disappointed about that. (this is how I can imagine things went, I never heard the reason for his leave).

We may contact him for this, or we may wait for him to arrange a solution for the fund. It is not that anyone is waiting for the money right now.

He didn’t get fed up or anything like that. He got really sick for like a month, then had the maintenance work at his bed and breakfast pile up. Then there was a flood on the property requiring even more of his time. His health may have relapsed again for a while.

I’m guessing that being off the forum for so long might have been a relief and that it was hard to get back into the swing of things so it was better to stay off. IDK, but seems plausible.

Thanks for the extra info Jason.

I feel confident there was no bad intent either.

But it has been 15.5 months since this post has been updated. It is past time for this to be taken care of one way or the other. Whether the OP takes care of it himself or deligates someone to handle it makes no difference.

People donated to this fund in good faith for the development of ‘Future Projects’, the administration of the fund should honor that good faith.

If it is simply a matter that the OP has not been updated with more expendatures, update it or deligate someone to update it.

If the accounting is up to date in the OP, then either start administering it or delegate someone to.

As TA mentioned over 6 months ago…. he could have used some of this money in developing ‘Future Projects’. I am sure there are others that could have benefited in the same way developing ‘Future Projects’.

In the spirit of transparency, below is a copy of an email I just sent to The Miller at the only email address I have for him. Hopefully he is doing well & in good health and will address this matter when he sees fit.
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Subject: Item needs attention….

Hello Wim,

I hope this email finds you doing well & in good health.

There is a matter at BLF that needs your attention.

It is the thread you started about “Future Projects Donations”. It has not been updated since 1 October 2017. It shows a balance of $486.37.

If this is not correct, please update with the correct amount or delegate someone to do so.

If it is correct, please either start administering this fund or deligate someone to do so

Below is a link to the thread and the accounting summary when last updated 1 October 2017.

Again, I hope you are well & in good health.

Best regards,
Chuck
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‘Talk about future projects and donation topic’

BLF DONATIONS OVERVIEW
Total input 830,52
Total spend 344,15
Funds left 486,37

Ok, sounds fine to me....

/\…… :+1:

I just sent an email to him as well, little more personal but along the same lines, CC'ing djozz and MrsDNF. Sorry to leave anyone out but feel strongly that djozz and the Mrs should be included.

That’s fine. I would have CC’d also but I do not have anyone elses email address. So I just posted it here instead, nothing to hide. I had The Millers email address from a couple of years ago. I hope it is still correct, it is the same one in the OP btw.

Stumbled upon a nice zooming TIR lens:



Good:
Low height = compact head
Wide opening = wide post = superb thermals
Short zooming movement
Interesting looks. :slight_smile:

Bad:
They claim 3 degree beam with XP-E which seems a bit optimistic - Enderman’t calculator claims 3.5 degree for a reflector of this size.
And the beamshot doesn’t seem fully focused - the central lens should produce a square die projection clearly visible on the wall.
The rim at the edge complicates waterproofing.

Anyway - it may have nice potential.

When a TIR is in focused mode both the lens and the outer “reflector” part are active.
You can see this when looking at a led lenser light that is zoomed in:

The reflector part is what causes the spot to be round, unlike with a purely aspheric optic.

Also they probably just rounded the divergence down to 3 degrees, it’s not a huge difference.

I am used to seeing both die projection and a round reflected spot in TIR zoomies. But maybe overexposure hides it…

Sorry, off track, but this thread reminded me -- I did hear back from The Miller from an email I sent. It took a while, and the response was a while ago, but I thought he said he'd address it. I didn't want to pressure him though, so dunno when.

Thanks for the info. Glad you at least heard something back. Hopefully he will follow through on what he told you. :+1:

A bit OT…but I spotted something I don’t understand on that Led Lenser. What is the circled thing?

I want this:

Quality host, quality lens, quality UI…maybe even optional shorty tube…one can only dream…

I suppose there are no news?

ye p - no new news unfortunately.