Paying for Tech

Overview

• Aspiration offers business coaching and proposal vetting
• tech minimalism- when in doubt, leave it at
• no such thing as a self-maintaining tool
• free tools you are the product: data responsibility
• knowing who is maintaining/owning your content
• model for shit hitting the fare
• control fixed monthly costs
• evaluate $5 vs @500 monthly hosting costs
• a lot of how you pay is time
• tech is a garden, requires wedding
• beep a spreadsheet of recurring costs
• no magic budget for tech
• pizza delivery pathology:
  • cook me a pizza and deliver
  • tech leadership is understanding costs
• trust trustworthy people
• Aspiration helps with grant proposals
• get funders excited about impact
• wrap up tech in impact narrative
• funders dont know what tech costs.
• NPOs bottom line = survival, efficiency
• multiply what you think: $10 --. $15k
• 5 paths: eric leland
  • Drupal:
• cost-sharing: be cautious of divergent needs/priorities
  • make a solid document that outlines how decision get made
  • lot
• every decision: are we maximizing control over our destinz
  • long term contracts dont do it
• have the divorve convo before signing a contract (again control is your data)
• open source! Use it! It is social just technology subverts.
• impact measurement:
  • heat: pageviews, clicks, trends, referral --. gratitude
• dont overpromise to funder, consider what funder can contribute
• negotiation: have other party to make first bid