Re: Fwd: Article on Accounting

[Jeff Kowalczyk <..hidden..>]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:13:05 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> I am in the same position as you are and this is why I was hoping that
> we could find 6-20 similar people who would be willing to tip in
> £1-2,000 into the development pot and we can hire a couple of the
> developers to work *full time* on customising LSMB for UK workflow (I
> think if we could raise £20K we would be able to pay for more than
> enough development time to solve all the major needs?)
> 
> This is only what I'm going to pay my accountant.  I'm only a 1.5 person
> company - I'm not some megacorp - however, I really think it's money
> well spent, but I can't afford to pay for all the customisation on my
> own.  I estimate that it probably saves me £5K a year if I could get a
> better "business accounting and workflow package" than I have at present
> (SL), so I figure it's not unreasonable to put some of that saving into
> paying to have such a package built.

On the topic of "Social Sourcing", Christopher Johnson organized
PloneGetPaid very effectively to be supported by sponsorship and donation.
He gives a talk on the topic today in New Orleans and links to notes video
of an earlier version of the talk:

http://plonegetpaid.com/updates/archive/2008/06/03/social-sourcing-talk-at-plone-symposium-nola/view