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 obtaining a package that fitted with > SPI's needs and was within SPI's budget. A second issue, when it comes to check processing, is protection from errors and malfeasance. A third issue is that no such company will use free software without us paying them lots of extra money to do so. This deserves a fair amount of research by one or more SPI members. Volunteers? > (2) Hiring a part-time employee > > Another option is to hire an office assistant on a part-time basis. The > office assistant could work for however many hours per week that was > agreed with the SPI secretary (subject to upper limits set by the > board). We may find, for example, that we only need an office assistant > to work for 4 hours per week to achieve our aims. The hourly rate of > someone performing this task is likely to be quite modest. The problem with extremely part-time employees is that they tend to be no more reliable than volunteers, since they don't have a large financial commitment in working for the organization. I suggest that we could also investigate splitting a 100% full-time assistant with some other OSS Foundations. --Josh Berkus _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
