Dear all,
FYI, for our accounting I have created a continuous ledger in
https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/ -> GRASS-PCS -> Accounting and have filled
it with all transactions in our PayPal and bank account since 2018. The
idea is to use this as our central accounting tool and note all coming
transactions in this ledger. This will allow to easily extract annual
accounts and follow our current financial situation.
As already discussed we should also review the way we collect
sponsorship money, for different reasons:
- The current PayPal Money pool runs over my personal account which is
not very bus-factor resilient.
- Venka's experience has shown that from some countries it is not easy
to contribute without a PayPal account, e.g. with a credit card.
OSGeo uses a Github sponsorship system which we should advertise as
people can dedicate their contribution to a specific project. However,
AFAIU, the Github sponsorship system is limited to people with a Github
account and only allows deciding on a continuous (monthly), not a
one-shot donation.
In light of this, I would suggest the following for our sponsorship system:
- https://opencollective.com/ for flexible one-shot, credit-card based
sponsorships, including a series of different options and advantages
(ex: receipts) for sponsors. How we organize this exactly (via fiscal
host) is still to be determined (maybe OSGeo can become a fiscal host
for all OSGeo projects ?).
- https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo for recurring sponsorship.
- Our bank account for direct money transfer, mostly within Europe.
Does this sound reasonable for everyone ? If yes, I will look into the
details of Open Collective and create our system.
Moritz
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