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I am stepping back from the #Tusky project with immediate effect.
I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project's donations (received via #OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those to the project's private "Tusky Contributors" Matrix channel the financial admins tone policed the feedback, refused to engage with the concerns I and others raised, and demanded the discussion be stopped.
There is too much detail for a thread, so please read https://write.as/nikclayton/stepping-back-from-the-tusky-project.
@nikclayton I am not certain that the first two counts are suspicious. Payment was made for work on three issues. It sounds like the person was legit, they just didn't finish the work after being paid?
The second is just silly. Project Management is a job title and job description. It is explicitly what they mean by "someone unfamiliar with your project" will recognize.
Invoices don't list specifics. There should be internal docs for that. Those docs often aren't public.
@nikclayton If the project (hypothetically) hired me, I'd appear on the invoice as "Policy & Regulatory Analysis". You would NOT list the different policy issues involved on the invoice. That would be documented internally for many reasons. What the accountants need to know is "what was this money used for?"
I do not work on IT regs, so I cannot speak to specifics, but I do think that it's better to ask an attorney or accountant to look first before raising suspicions.