Re: Holding more discussions in public

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:37:07PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> I have noticed that there are a number of discussions here that are held
> on -board or -prviate when there is no real need for them to not be on
> -general. Some of them are on both -board *and* -private, which seems
> extra silly. I'd like to propose this:
[snip]

John, as I believe I've said already elsewhere, I like your proposal.

SPI Board and members, please let me know which, if any, of the types of
messages I've been sending to -private should be going to -general instead.
Since almost all of them have to do with the nuts and bolts of monetary
receipts and disbursements, I've probably tended to err on the side of
discretion. That has certain unfortunate side effects, as some of you
know.

Here's a sampling of the subjects of my recent mails to spi-private:

Jan 02 [Spi-private] snail mail roundup for Indianapolis 2004-12-02 to 2004-12-31
Jan 13 [Spi-private] Treasurer report format (was: FirstIB bank account opened)
Jan 13 [Spi-private] Re: Treasurer report format (was: FirstIB bank account opened)
Jan 13 Re: [Spi-private] Treasurer's report format suggestion
Jan 13 Re: [Spi-private] snail mail roundup for Indianapolis 2004-12-02 to 2004-12-31
Jan 13 Re: [Spi-private] Re: GNUstep and SPI
Jan 13 [Spi-private] BANK: deposited USD 859.00 to FirstIB checking account
Jan 24 Re: [Spi-private] Outdated information about SPI at Network for Good
Jan 27 [Spi-private] Re: signing checks for SPI
Feb 01 [Spi-private] Re: snail mail roundup for Indianapolis 2004-12-02 to 2004-12-31
Feb 01 [Spi-private] snail mail roundup for Indianapolis 2005-01-01 to 2005-01-30
Feb 01 [Spi-private] Re: snail mail roundup for Indianapolis 2005-01-01 to 2005-01-30
Feb 12 [Spi-private] BANK: deposited USD 4936.22 to FirstIB checking account
Feb 14 [Spi-private] BANK: scheduled payment of USD 146.78 to XXX
Feb 23 [Spi-private] BANK: several items paid on 2005-02-22
Feb 23 [Spi-private] notice of disbursement of Debian funds by SPI
Feb 27 Re: [Spi-private] BANK: several items paid on 2005-02-22
Feb 28 Re: [Spi-private] notice of disbursement of Debian funds by SPI
Mar 15 [Spi-private] preliminary snail mail report for Indianapolis 2005-02-01 to 2005-02-28
Mar 20 [Spi-private] BANK: deposited USD 1148.10 to FirstIB checking account on 2005-03-19
Mar 22 [Spi-private] BANK: scheduled payment of USD 300.00 to XXX
Mar 22 [Spi-private] BANK: scheduled payment of 290.00 to XXX
Mar 22 [Spi-private] [XXX: Foreign donations]

In some cases I replaced pieces of the original subject text with "XXX".

Comments?

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G. Branden Robinson, Deputy Treasurer
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
branden(at)spi-inc(dot)org
http://www.spi-inc.org/