[Treasurers] transparency

[Gabriel Baldwin]

This is very cool Nathan! I love the boldness and openness. I think its
probably safe to share openly. The only things that I think could bit back
would be if there were any subjective analysis of individuals or services
that could be perceived as negative or slanderous. I didnt see anything
that raised a flag for me :) others thoughts?

I love how you have a "coop name".bostoncoops.org address. It would be
great if we could get a quick 'how to' for getting each of coops on there
as a sub page to bostoncoops.org so that coops if they wish to share their
info in the same format could. Thoughts?

Gabriel

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Larson <nathanlarson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Treasurers list.  I wanted to talk about public transparency in
> accounting.  A small thing that I think could make a huge difference is to
> get coops to be publicly transparent about their accounting.  With this
> information we could crunch data to show how coops save money, see trends,
> and better improve the lives of cooperators by insight into how other coops
> operate and where efficiencies can be gained.  And of course the benefit of
> accountability is immediately gained with transparency too.
>
> But is there any downside?
>
> I hope not because our coop has already gone public.  Data for food,
> utility (including gas/electricity/oil consumption), rent, and landlord
> expenses are all available from our coop's website:
>
> http://whirlybird.bostoncoops.org/house-operations/finance
>
>
>
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