Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.
The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:
@mcc Hmm. Even in your expanded explanation, these payments still sound sketchy. The concept of invoicing someone for uncompleted work is bizarre. I'd suggest getting an audit and hiring an accountant ASAP. This window into Tusky's haphazard project governance is deeply concerning...
I love the Tusky app and I hope to continue using it as my daily driver. Please get this stuff fixed.
@pynkbites@mcc Its fairly normal if invoicing for time, not work done.
(The complexities around this are one reason why major grant originating organisations like NLNet tend to pay on milestone completions; though this comes with its own hazards around e.g. underscoped work)
@erincandescent@mcc Really? It seems a broadly unwise approach to freelance work. I'm imagining a commissioned artist coming back to me and saying "Sorry I wasn't able to draw your art, but I spent forty hours on sketches so I'm keeping the money."
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