I'm not a sudo member so feel free to ignore me - but empowering someone to keep track of expenses and funds raised/donated, give finance reports to the members, and bottomline making sure the related tools/systems are working can be super helpful, no matter how low-budget an org is.

e.g many eons ago I made this for noisebridge

http://cha-ching.noisebridge.net/graph/all (actually it needs a lot of work as it's showing PayPal but not Stripe - sigh :) but honestly it can be fun to maintain these tools, and a treasurer is the rabblerouser who can encourage that to happen.

--mark B.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022, 3:21 AM Jake via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:

I don't think there's any point in appointing a treasurer since we don't even
have enough money to pay our rent to Omni, and if we do (or have more) we
should just give it to Omni anyway, or use it for improvements that can be paid
through Omni's finance person (which is a position they are presently hiring
for)

Omni's bank account is tied to Sudoroom's, they're basically the same thing.
So there really isn't anything for anyone in sudoroom to do about money other
than observe the flow and report, as well as solicit donations from people and
grants, and recruit more membership. If we want to spend on specific things,
they can most easily be paid for by a coalition of the willing, for example
"who wants to split the cost of an epoxy floor?" followed by "why don't you
just donate more money monthly so we can meet our rent for now?"

another thing is that we need to get out of the habit of saying "somebody
should" do this, like "we should appoint somebody to be treasurer". Sudoroom
is about empowerment, and with that comes responsibility for participation.
Why not volunteer to be "treasurer"?

-jake

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, Andrew R Gross via sudo-discuss wrote:

> Is the same for me.
>
> What do folks think about my suggestion that we appoint a treasurer?
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 1:53 PM Juliana A via sudo-discuss <
> sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jenny, thanks for sending that, but I dont see anything on that pdf,
>> does anyone see anything (see a screenshot attached)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 1:12 AM Omni Commons via sudo-discuss <
>> sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Attached is an automatically-generated profit and loss report for Sudo
>>> Room.
>>> Our current goal is $2500/month
>>>
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