> As an example: wouldn't those money (+ a good deal of extra other) be > better spent to pay a professional accountant than in this fund-raising > initiative? I'm convinced that at SPI scale, that would make a real > difference in the quality of service offered to affiliated projects.
If you look at last month's board meeting, you'll see a rather strident proposal from me that we hire a new bookkeeper. I think we need to do that *also*. I agree that that's more important than software we'll get in a year. Fortunately, we have the money to do *both*. One of the problems we encounter, though, is that most bookkeepers won't deal with our wonky ad-hoc system. This puts a lot of ongoing burden on the volunteer treasurer, and causes the bookkeeper so be less effective. --Josh Berkus _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
