21 Feb
2013
21 Feb
'13
12:27 p.m.
After a long period of semi-benign neglect of the weightier aspects of the
Excheqing, I am happy to pass the function on to the eminently qualified
Tommy York. In addition to having drafted a new set of fiscal solvency
sheets for us which look like they will serve us very well, he brings
experience running coop finances and a business degree to the task.
This could not come at a better time, since the regular budget surpluses I
mostly passively functioned over mean that we will very soon be
crowdfunding sudo projects with our surplus income. My day job is now to
write an accounting system for a crowdfunding and community currency
platform with significant conceptual overlap with our own financial
processes, and to the extent I am able contribute this sort of automation
to what we do at sudo room, I will deeply appreciate the guidance and
leadership of someone with a firm handle on the business issues at the core
of things.
As is our ancient sudo custom, after the obligatory series of polite, coy
refusals by Tommy, the Excheqatorial sceptre was dropped and waved in the
prescribed manner, and the information on the accounts was handed over, and
the ritual of assumption is now complete.
Welcome to the future, Tommy!
21 Feb
21 Feb
6:11 p.m.
Huzzah!
On Feb 21, 2013 12:27 PM, "Anthony Di Franco" <di.franco(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
After a long period of semi-benign neglect of the
weightier aspects of the
Excheqing, I am happy to pass the function on to the eminently qualified
Tommy York. In addition to having drafted a new set of fiscal solvency
sheets for us which look like they will serve us very well, he brings
experience running coop finances and a business degree to the task.
This could not come at a better time, since the regular budget surpluses I
mostly passively functioned over mean that we will very soon be
crowdfunding sudo projects with our surplus income. My day job is now to
write an accounting system for a crowdfunding and community currency
platform with significant conceptual overlap with our own financial
processes, and to the extent I am able contribute this sort of automation
to what we do at sudo room, I will deeply appreciate the guidance and
leadership of someone with a firm handle on the business issues at the core
of things.
As is our ancient sudo custom, after the obligatory series of polite, coy
refusals by Tommy, the Excheqatorial sceptre was dropped and waved in the
prescribed manner, and the information on the accounts was handed over, and
the ritual of assumption is now complete.
Welcome to the future, Tommy!
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6:20 p.m.
LOL... "Welcome to the future, Tommy!" should be printed on a tshirt.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote:
Huzzah!
On Feb 21, 2013 12:27 PM, "Anthony Di Franco" <di.franco(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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Cheers,
Rusty Lindgren
**
After a long period of semi-benign neglect of the
weightier aspects of
the Excheqing, I am happy to pass the function on to the eminently
qualified Tommy York. In addition to having drafted a new set of fiscal
solvency sheets for us which look like they will serve us very well, he
brings experience running coop finances and a business degree to the task.
This could not come at a better time, since the regular budget surpluses
I mostly passively functioned over mean that we will very soon be
crowdfunding sudo projects with our surplus income. My day job is now to
write an accounting system for a crowdfunding and community currency
platform with significant conceptual overlap with our own financial
processes, and to the extent I am able contribute this sort of automation
to what we do at sudo room, I will deeply appreciate the guidance and
leadership of someone with a firm handle on the business issues at the core
of things.
As is our ancient sudo custom, after the obligatory series of polite, coy
refusals by Tommy, the Excheqatorial sceptre was dropped and waved in the
prescribed manner, and the information on the accounts was handed over, and
the ritual of assumption is now complete.
Welcome to the future, Tommy!
_______________________________________________
sudo-discuss mailing list
sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
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9:18 p.m.
Hello everyone!
I'm Tommy, I love spreadsheets, organizational finances, cooperative
development and the required non-hierarchical leadership, and so on. Plenty
of other things too. I love questions, feedback, and extensive critiques of
things I say.
I've got some excheque'ing to catch up on, so I apologize if this email
isn't all fully formed and brimming with data and information.
If anyone missed the meeting last evening and would like to take a look at
what those fiscal solvency sheets look like right now, the URL for the
current version is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlKk2X9KKqlFdFZJUy12ZUhDUmx2N3…
(credit
to Hol for the standing fund contribution logic on the "current" worksheet,
w00t do-ocracy). I'd happy to go over them with anyone who's interested.
These are totally, totally a work in progress, and right now really serve
as what a few of us were thinking for the next few months. After we get
hard numbers in there and go through the process once or twice, I think
logic will start to make a lot of sense. Right now, it's pretty much just a
test case.
Obviously, surpluses and defining the projects will help us fill out and
test various ways to implement the worksheet where members get to allocate
/ crowdfund various projects (currently worksheet 4, will be worksheet 3
soon).
If you have any ideas for the spreadsheets and want to play around with
them in a significantly altering way, Google Doc's offers a convenient
option on worksheets to copy them into other existing workbooks, allowing
for "fork" style code-editing (with few of other revision control features,
but I'm happy to do things by hand, for now...)
Proposals for discussions I heard recently and hope to have soon:
- Building in long-term predictions in some kind of concrete and useful way
- Documenting the spreadsheet with comments such that any new member can
quickly read and understand the budget spreadsheet and its logic... (I've
done these before, and will try to make a similar document.)
- Financially modeling expansion options, especially against membership
growth predictions (totally a "sensitivity analysis" kind of spreadsheet...
a favorite!)
- Assessing our banking options - credit unions?, etc - now that we've got
some momentum.
- Anything you'd like to suggest.
More to come.
The future is ours for the... making.
Happy hacking,
Tommy
-----------------
Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
After a long period of semi-benign neglect of the
weightier aspects of the
Excheqing, I am happy to pass the function on to the eminently qualified
Tommy York. In addition to having drafted a new set of fiscal solvency
sheets for us which look like they will serve us very well, he brings
experience running coop finances and a business degree to the task.
This could not come at a better time, since the regular budget surpluses I
mostly passively functioned over mean that we will very soon be
crowdfunding sudo projects with our surplus income. My day job is now to
write an accounting system for a crowdfunding and community currency
platform with significant conceptual overlap with our own financial
processes, and to the extent I am able contribute this sort of automation
to what we do at sudo room, I will deeply appreciate the guidance and
leadership of someone with a firm handle on the business issues at the core
of things.
As is our ancient sudo custom, after the obligatory series of polite, coy
refusals by Tommy, the Excheqatorial sceptre was dropped and waved in the
prescribed manner, and the information on the accounts was handed over, and
the ritual of assumption is now complete.
Welcome to the future, Tommy!
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