[Imc] PROPOSAL: cooperative staffing arrangement

[Sascha Meinrath]

zack's proposal for working at the IMC sounds great.  i've been looking at
various law stuff to see how it would impact our non-profit status and it
doesn't look like this would be a problem.  the only problem i could possibly
find would be if the IMC was directly subsidizing zack's work and he was a
politician.  in fact, because zack's services are an in-kind donation that
greatly outways any benefits (in terms of money and resources) that he
receives
from the IMC, even a paranoid reading of non-profit laws leaves us plenty of
breathing room.

personally, i think the IMC would benefit greatly from having someone in the
space for eight hours a day and as long as zack is willing to adjust his
worklife to make this possible, i think we should take him up on his offer.

--sascha

At 04:49 PM 12/10/00 Sunday, Zachary C.Miller wrote:
>I wonder what plans we have for keeping the IMC space staffed once it
>is opened up? I imagine we don't have the money (yet) to have a paid
>staff member. If we are going to use the space to raise revenues
>(which I think we really should do) then we need to have it open
>during some regular recurring hours. 
>
>A thought burst into my head as a possibility and I wanted to find out
>what people thought about it.
>
>I work from home over the net. 
>
>If we got a decent net connection (at least as good as what I have at
>home, which is 1.5 down, 256 up) then I could move my home office to
>the IMC space and work from there every day for at least 8 hours.
>
>I could act as a cashier, a phone answerer, a general office
>coordinator while I was there as long as these duties didn't majorly
>detract from my ability to spend most of the time working at my job.
>
>Benefits to IMC:
>
>We would have someone present at the IMC every day for at least 8
>hours. 
>
>Free staff person. No compensation neccessary apart from the use of
>the net connection.
>
>My computer(s) comes with me and others would be welcome to use it
>when I wasn't working. This gives the IMC at least one decent
>server/workstation on site.
>
>Drawbacks to IMC:
>
>I don't know if having me doing work for a for-profit company using
>IMC's resources would jeopardize IMC's non-profit status. 
>
>Benefits to me: 
>
>An office space and a set schedule would do wonders for my circadian
>rhythms and time organization.
>
>This is the one way I could devote a lot of time to IMC without
>jeopardizing my job.
>
>I have to get my self out of the house every day. 
>
>Drawbacks to me:
>
>I have to get my self out of the house every day. 
>
>Other issues:
>
>If business/activity started really booming at the space (which I hope
>it does) then I won't be able to take care of everything myself _and_
>get my work done. I need it to be a situation where 90% of the time
>there is nothing that I have to do for IMC but be physically present
>and 10% of the time I might be selling stuff or answering questions or
>whatever. If things get beyond that threshhold then we may need to
>find additional staffers.
>
>Someday (when I have paid off my copious debts, perhaps in a year) I
>would be interested in being a full time paid staff member/techie for
>the IMC if no one else is already (or if whoever is needs a
>break). This experience might give both myself and the IMC an idea of
>whether such a thing would be worthwhile. 
>
>There is a potential that in 3 or 4 months my job may become a
>half-time rather than full-time commitment. I am looking for someone
>to do job-sharing with so that two people work 20 hours/week and share
>my current (easily sharable) salary. (If any techies out there are
>interested in this please email me privately). My boss is sold on this
>idea and so am I. Perhaps if this works out I could commit a lot more
>time to IMC work (on either a volunteer or a paid basis depending on
>how things go).
>
>What do people think of this idea? Does IMC already have well
>established plans for staffing the space? Do people think it would be
>better to just do shifts of volunteers who can give their full
>attention to IMC work while they are there?
>
>-- 
>Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
>IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet
> Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
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