<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Motions will be forthcoming.</div><div><br></div><div>Joshua did have the sum of it quite nicely.</div><div><br></div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">-- <br class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625m_-3127322915738053127m_6868658402900056848m_-1959268642050574349m_-7405930037734948463gmail_signature gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666" class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><b class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg">In Liberty,</b></font></div><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666" class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><b class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg">Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><font size="1" class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg" style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><span class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg" style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg"><span class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg" style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" class="gmail-m_5331805765036827625gmail_msg" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Wes Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On 1/4/2017 9:09 AM, Ken Moellman wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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