Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software

[Clint Adams]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:21:41AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> The Software Freedom Conservancy is proposing to fund the efforts of a
> full-time software developer to create NPO accounting software which
> will be completely open source and free.  SPI could really use such
> software.

Aside from concerns about a 501(c)3 making an unrestricted donation
to another 501(c)3:

What are the relevant factors which would precipitate SPI's switch
to the new software?

Would it be beneficial to participate in the Phase-0 evaluation?
If so, how does that work?