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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.
@datatitian@social.coop@nikclayton so, to summarize, you found a payment to a contractor suspicious because you couldn't find any code from the work, and then you talked to the contractor and found the code, so your suspicions were in fact unfounded.
And also you think it's a conflict of interest for the person who does the accounting for the org to also be on the payroll for he org... like an accountant
@datatitian @nikclayton that is not at all what was said or an accurate summary. For anyone interested or who didn’t read, this is what was said: After initially raising this issue I then spent approximately two hours on 2023-08-23 and 2023-08-24 mentoring the payee to fix issue #2368, and submit a PR. They did, which I reviewed, approved, and merged. The other two issues remain open at the time of writing.
@Archnemysis @datatitian @nikclayton Furthermore, "good financial stewardship, as well as straightforward common sense, would have recognised the obvious potential for conflict of interest, and ensured that anyone who was so dependent on the project's funds would not have any say in controlling those funds." - they control and receive funds, which is usually a no-no. (Accountants track funds, but don't make funding decisions - and usually act as a check on those main decisions, so bad example.)
@datatitian @nikclayton An accountant would know that if they need a check for reimbursement for a non-accountant related expense, then someone else needs to approve it and write it. And they would make damn sure everyone knew why the check was written.
@datatitian @nikclayton That's just so wildly inaccurate, that it makes me believe that you skimmed the article.
Go read it again.
@datatitian @nikclayton is it typical for an accountant to pay themselves 47% of all incoming revenue? If so, then I need to become an accountant