From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 10 11:54:09 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou8jh-0001dX-4Z for llg-board@lojban.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:54:09 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:54:09 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] 2010 Annual Meeting: New Business: Paying people for Lojban work Message-ID: <20100910185408.GD20652@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 682 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board So Linday offered to do a bunch of LLG work for a relatively small amount of money; the first time someone has seriously offered to do that to my knowledge. Here's the thing: I am the treasurer, but I have *no* training in book-keeping. I hate doing it. It is *probably* legal and correct, but I'm honestly not even sure about that. I don't have the time, energy, or interest to do the research required to figure out how the LLG can hire someone, let alone someone in another state (Lindar is in CA, the LLG is in VA). Since we're a non-profit, I suspect that there's an easy way to do this, but I don't know what it is and I don't know how to find out. To be absolutely clear: I am refusing to do the required research, at least in the forseeable future. If I were you, I'd fire me as Treasurer for doing that, because that's a really shitty thing to do, but since no-one else is willing to do it, I think you're stuck. Sorry about that. My inclination is to send a blanket email asking the entire community if anyone has the required knowledge, but I wanted to ask here first: any ideas? We could ask for forgiveness rather than permission: that is, we could just pay people and hope nothing bad happens. Beyond that, I'm stuck. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/