Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:09:14 -0700
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:08:20AM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote:
> On 26.06.2012 23:51, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:06:49PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier
> >wrote:
> >>I seem to recall that Robin paid Lindar (or was it someone else)
> >>once before for a chunk of work related to byfy.  I don't recall
> >>how that worked out, or even whether Robin reported on how well
> >>it worked out.  I would appreciate a report on that earlier
> >>experiment with paid work (including how much was paid for what
> >>amount of work) before opining on the virtue of this one.
> >
> >It was Lindar, and aside from mild annoyance with him due to his
> >somewhat abrasive personality, it worked out fine; he was
> >trolling the mailing list history for me for things to reference
> >from BPFK pages so that we have knowledge of what historically
> >has been contentious or complicated or whatever.  He did, in
> >fact, find and link to many many things; it looked like enough
> >work to match what we paid him for.
> >
> >-Robin
> 
> Since it worked well before and because the project Lindar
> proposes seems like a good thing to have, I think the proposal
> should be accepted.
> 
> However, I have no clue of how much any such work is worth and how
> much the minimum wage actually is, since I've neither done any
> real paid work before, nor live where lindar does. I think the
> rate of payment would still need a bit of discussion.

His request was to be paid the $960 up front, and then to work the
amount of time he specificed, or perhaps a bit more, with the intent
of finishing the job.

Given the whole planning fallacy thing, I've requested that he tie
things more tightly to actual hours work; if we give him $800
(seemed a nice round number to start with), he will work 100 hours
on this project and get back to us when that's done.

I wish to make it clear that I have not, and do not intend to,
explore the tax or legal implications of paying him; he's an
independent contractor responsible for his own taxation as far as
I'm concerned.  If the IRS hunts us down, you can call it my fault.
If that's a problem, then we need to find someone to do that
research, but honestly, the worst *possible* case is that we owe the
IRS a bit of money; no-one's going to jail over this kind of cash.

-Robin

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