From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 20 22:30:48 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OxvRH-0006pQ-PM for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:30:48 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:30:47 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Guys? (was Re: 2010 Annual Meeting: New Business: Paying people for Lojban work) Message-ID: <20100921053047.GW30871@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20100910185408.GD20652@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100910185408.GD20652@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 684 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 Heloooooooooo? I'd like to bring this up at the meeting? -Robin On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:54:09AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > 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/ > > -- 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/