The law of the books
Every movement of value into or out of the collective is a line here. Kinds: gift, expense, physical sale, transfer, note. No salary. No wage. No “contractor lifestyle” line that is payroll in costume. Program spend only — albums, books, zines, servers, supplies, postage — and even-split of unrestricted gifts when that is how the table divides bread.
Source of truth is the file
ledger.json
in git. If it is not in the ledger, it did not happen. Open
books are our practice now; they are not a claim that we are
already a registered non-profit or that gifts are
tax-deductible.