[Lnc-business] comment on costs and savings on I.T. projects - Re: LPedia

[Nicholas Sarwark]

FYI: You don't need to pass any motions to move LPedia to a hosted
solution.  Ken was sending a heads up to see if there's any objection.

Creation of a committee or something like that would need a motion.

-Nick

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos
<carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, Ken and I (primarily Ken - all due credit to his efforts behind
> the scenes on this) are going to work on the appropriate motions.  Pretty
> much it is Ken, and he is running by me to be sure I don't see something
> missing.
>
> But we need to realize that LPedia is going away - from where it is now -
> that is happening.  We can either save it or not. This is the best means to
> save it with little to no efforts needed from staff.  The rest of the
> questions are great - but they are right now irrelevant to the existential
> question.  Those can be developed as we go, but we have to pull the trigger
> on the existential question.  Or give up LPedia to someone else and lose a
> great means to solve many problems and responsibilities such as historical
> information that doesn't even really belong on a simply frozen archive site
> discussed before, take control of preserving the vast history in the
> psychical archives I inspected during our visit, and being good stewards of
> our history going forward.  IOW, this is a gold mine to solve a lot of
> nagging website objections I still have and many members still have.
>
> So much has been wasted (over the years now I see with Starchild's input)
> talking and not doing.  Ken did what I asked and beyond.  He found a great
> solution.
>
> Motions will be forthcoming.
>
> Joshua did have the sum of it quite nicely.
>
>
> --
> In Liberty,
> Caryn Ann Harlos
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:
>>
>> To expand on what Ken said, while I do also hope cost-savings are realized
>> with some of these various I.T. projects (LPEdia, various emails systems,
>> LP.org hosting, Raiser's Edge upgrades, etc.), I think we've seen
>> over-optimistic projections for savings quite a bit, so I'll personally try
>> not to be overly optimistic about potential savings when discussing these
>> projects with the LNC and others.
>>
>> I think we need to do many of these upgrades even if some of the direct
>> expenditures result in being higher than our current direct expenditures.
>>
>> Other people, feel free to expand on the concept of Total Cost of
>> Ownership, opportunity costs, other benefits, etc., but some of the direct
>> expenditures that are easily identifiable won't necessarily go down.
>>
>>
>> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
>> Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
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>> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
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>>
>> On 1/4/2017 9:09 AM, Ken Moellman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> So we're looking, overall, at reducing budget from about $3000/mo down to
>>> approximately $1500/mo.  Don't hold me to these figures just yet; there are
>>> still decisions to be made.  The goal here is to provide better service at a
>>> lower price.  I think that goal is attainable.
>>
>>
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> Caryn Ann Harlos
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
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