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Simon Michael operates the "plaintextaccounting" organisation (together with contributors and moderators), providing plaintextaccounting.org and forum.plaintextaccounting.org, managed matrix rooms/space and IRC channel, support, outreach etc. SM also acts as CFO and fiscal host. For more background, see PTA forum news, 2024-03-18 and A trial of Discourse for Plain Text Accounting discussions.

I want this organisation to be solvent and self-sustaining, so if you find this work useful, and you are in a position to help financially, your support is much appreciated!

• To help cover project costs like hosting, donate here;
  These are tracked (anonymised) in the public ledger below. Any surplus will be used as judged best by the CFO, eg to build up a future-proofing reserve or to fund PTA-related work in future.

  • Support PTA via Github:
  • Support PTA via Paypal:

• To support the core workers, donate privately here:\

  • Support Simon via Github: (I won't know this is for PTA work, feel free to let me know)
  • Support Simon via Paypal:
  • Support moderators: later when they have something to do

Github charges 0% fees for personal accounts, 3-6% fees for organization accounts.
Paypal charges ~3% fees.

To all funders: thank you in advance!

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Balance Sheet 2024-03-30
	2024-03-30
Assets
total	0
Liabilities
liabilities:payable:sm	$50
total	$50
Net:	$-50

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Income Statement 2024-03-30
	2024-03-30
Revenues
total	0
Expenses
expenses:hosting	$50
total	$50
Net:	$-50

General Journal

(source)

2024-03-30 begin tracking finances of the plaintextaccounting org.

2024-03-30 Discourse | begin $50/mo hosting at Discourse, with an advance from SM
    expenses:hosting                   $50
    liabilities:payable:sm            $-50