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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pci@permaculture-inst.org
  • Cc: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Report to Threshold
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:03:56 -0500

Hi Scott and others,

Scott Pittman writes:
> Chad,
> I didn't hear from you after my last post. Could you please send me the
> report that you composed so that I can send it and stay in some sort of
> good grace with Threshold? I know you have higher prioritites than this
> DB but it is important that we stay somewhat connected. It seems that
> your interest has waned considerable since we started and that you may
> have a problem stating that you are no longer interested, if that is the
> case it would be appropriate for you to say so to the whole group so
> that we don't continue to carry expectations of you that you don't
> intend to carry out.
> Thanks,
> Scott Pittman

I've attached the report as a text document.

Yes it's true that my interest has waned for several reasons one being
that my real world experience implementing my permaculture dreams at
Red Earth is consuming 60 plus hours of my week. The other important
and yet unstated reason that my participation has declined
dramatically is because of growing dissatisfaction with my current
level of responsibility and production in relation to the
compensation. I will readily admit that much of this dissatisfaction
is self created in that I consistently underbill for my time.

I would also like to point out that although it may seem like I have
some leadership role in this project that in fact my name does not
appear on the original grant application and that I was later added to
the project to do some of the technical implementation of the projects
goals. After spending some several hours preparing (not billed for)
the report I became somewhat upset in realizing that I am doing a job
which Stephanie has already been compensated for.

Some pertinent elements from the project expenses department.

August 10, 2004 Permaculture Institute Administrative fee 800.00
October 20, 2004 Chad Knepp Programming 495.00
January 7, 2005 Stephanie Gerson Project Coordination
1,000.00
July 26, 2005 Chad Knepp Programming 630.00
January 18, 2006 Chad Knepp Programming 765.00
--
Chad's total
$1890.00

I'm currently turning down jobs that pay upwards of $20/hr because the
financial incentive is not enough for me to take time away from far
more important things. Even though I love and believe in this project
the $2-$3/hr I am making is not enough convince me to walk 3/4 mile
and sit in front of this computer very often.

Sorry if I'm coming off as sounding whiny... as I said earlier I don't
see that I will have time to contribute to this project before Nov 1st
at the earliest. At that point funded or not I will again take up the
task. I am excited about what Bear is doing and although I don't like
php at all (security reasons) I can easily port his tagging
implementation to the python version this fall.

Cheers,
Chad


--
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'


Attachment: report.txt
Description: 2005 PIW report




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