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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.
@UncivilServant @nikclayton If you are receiving monies from an outside source (like a grant), then you absolutely would need to have that information available to the grant writer. Even your bill for dinner at a restaurant gives you a breakdown of what you are paying for.
@feritae @nikclayton The bill for my dinner would list the items I ordered. It would not list all of the spices the chef used or the cooking method. One would expect to know that this dish was baked or that dish was fried.
Other expenses from that period include tracking numbers of specific issues, but that's not relevant for program management. I presume they have some internal documentation of their work. It appears the manager was paid a flat monthly fee. The high-earner was paid $12/hr
@UncivilServant @nikclayton I don't think there is fraud involved and I do think that #Tusky is a great app. I'm using it at this precise moment. The problem is that Program Manager is a very big title for a lot of smaller things. What everyone is looking for is clarity that the additional documentation exists which you assume does.
Is there a good reason for not being open about it?
I come from the NPO world where a grant requires anyone on that grant to allocate their hours based on what part of the project they are working on at that moment - 10 hours to reporting, 10 hours to hands-on work re: technical issue #123, 10 hours to meeting with A re: technical issue #125, etc. And all of that info has to be provided to those we serve.