Am 13. März 2021 17:10:47 MEZ schrieb Michael Barton <[email protected]>: >Thanks for the ledger. > >Open Collective looks interesting. Have you had previous experience with it?
None on my side. Don't know if anyone else has. Moritz > > >On Mar 13, 2021, at 8:34 AM, Moritz Lennert ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >Dear all, > >FYI, for our accounting I have created a continuous ledger in >https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEkBzgijDU$ > -> 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEkZcgp-Ow$ > 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEk7cbj_mU$ > 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >grass-psc mailing list >[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEkEinN94A$ > _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
