[ahimsa-tech] TINA or TIAA, that is the question: was: Re: ahimsa-tech Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1

[dan blah]

On 12/7/06, ameba00x <ameba00x at bugslab.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:59:14 -0600
> "dan blah" <dan.blah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/7/06, boud <boud at riseup.net> wrote:
> > > hi dan,
> > >
>
> hi everybody,
>
hey hey,

> > >
> > > i think the Giga-$-corporation advertisements/quickbook/sql-ledger
> > > thread should probably go to imc-tech or maybe a usa based tech
> > > mailing list (if there is one?).
> > >
> > thats all good but honestly... i don't really care.  if the uc-imc
> > finance group implores the uc-imc tech group to provide them with an
> > osfs solution, i am on it.  as it is right now (they haven't implored
> > us) i am personally more interested in setting up public access
> > machines for lower income community members, getting internet to lower
> > income houses (CUWiN), keeping our no (low) cost hosting servers up,
> > and playing with new and better broadcasting software for our
> > community radio station.  isn't that the joy of volunteering... you
> > get to pick what you do :)
> >
>
> You're right but I don't like the attitude to think about our
> little field and don't care about the ogm a mile away .... isn't my way
> of acting political and neither indymedia one .... Am I wrong?
>
i completely agree with you.  i suppose its just a matter of
priorities and situation.  the decision is that of the finance group
and was made years before my involvement.  you can bet that the local
tech group will advocate a move to osfs if the conversation comes up
:)

> I'm still amazed that some imc use java technologies.
>
huh?

> > i put faith in the uc-imc finance group (with several of them being
> > quite tech savvy) that the decision to use quickbooks allows members
> > to do other things rather than spend (speculation) twice as much time
> > handling finances using sql-ledger.  this would only result in still
> > having to hire someone but for more time (more personal speculation).
>
> This is onether thing i just can't imagine. be payed to be Indymedia?
> For real? this is a joke for me, I can't believe it.
>
> Sorry, maybe I'm kinda of old anarchist anticapitalist guy :(
>
heh, it is hard to get people to do tedious number crunching.  i know
i tried playing the u-c imc bookkeeper for about 3 months volunteering
as much time as i could bare (about 3 or 4 hours a week) and never
made a dent.  with lots of local exposure (large show space, community
radio station, providing free internet) just our local finances are
time consuming not to mention our obligations to other organizations
world wide. TINA or TIAA?  I don't know why it is so hard to just
trust the ones who made the software choice (and they have stated they
evaluated available osfs).  They would be the ones who know what the
job is going to require.

either way you are preaching to the wrong person... as i said i agree
with most points brought up by other global imcer's but am inclined to
trust the judgment of people who have done/doing the work.
> bye
> ameba00x
>
> ps.
> thanks to boud that teach me this nice game with acronysm :)
>
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Daniel