Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-08 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:56:45PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > It took me some brainpower because bookkeeping is not the context I > usually see it in, and I think I've more often seen it called > emergency incident response plan, but for anyone else as thick as me: > > Is DR/BCP a Disaster Recovery/Bu

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-08 Thread MJ Ray
Robert Brockway > I plan to work on a DR/BCP plan for SPI which will involve me > understanding those processes but I haven't got there yet. It took me some brainpower because bookkeeping is not the context I usually see it in, and I think I've more often seen it called emergency incident respon

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, I'm in favor of getting paid help. Currently we are entirely too dependant on schultmc's time availability. And we have the money. > (1) Using a back office company > > Numerous companies (in the US and elsewhere) provide back office support > services. A concern here would be obtaini

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-07 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Jonathan McDowell wrote: I have added this, but the previous approach has been that such discussion should take place on the lists beforehand, rather than a new, free ranging discussion being begun at the meeting itself. Hi Jonathan. I don't envision the discussion at the

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-06 Thread Gregers Petersen
Hi On 05/02/12 19:05, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 11:56:09AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: >> Jonathan, please add the item "Discussion of back office support" to >> the February meeting agenda. I believe this should fall within >> general business but don't mind if you put

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-05 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 11:56:09AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: > Jonathan, please add the item "Discussion of back office support" to > the February meeting agenda. I believe this should fall within > general business but don't mind if you put it in another category. > > My intention here is fo

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-05 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: >> I was at one point involved with another nonprofit that used this kind of >> service. That nonprofit ended up moving those man-hours to in-house >> volunteer board members because it wasn't cost-effective for their needs. >> Although every

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-05 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: One thought first on discussing this in the meeting: we should probably have a predetermined time limit for this item, since discussions are Yes fair enough. I find that having a real time discussion with all or most directors present is a useful wa

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-04 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi Robert, One thought first on discussing this in the meeting: we should probably have a predetermined time limit for this item, since discussions are usually hard to make deep progress on during the meeting, but it's reasonable to spend a bit of time to get comments there. As for my substantive

Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-04 Thread Robert Brockway
Jonathan, please add the item "Discussion of back office support" to the February meeting agenda. I believe this should fall within general business but don't mind if you put it in another category. My intention here is for the board to discuss this topic, not to make any firm decisions durin