I've been following this closely and many foundations have switched to
Open Collective, as it seems to be a good solution that handles
invoices, tax receipts, distributing funds; whereas recently Github has
fallen out of favor by foundations because it has recently stated that
it will not produce tax receipts (sorry I don't have that link handy).
I've heard success stories by foundations based out of the EU and the
United States.
-jeff
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On 2021-03-13 12:10 p.m., Michael Barton wrote:
Thanks for the ledger.
Open Collective looks interesting. Have you had previous experience with it?
Michael
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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$
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEkBzgijDU$>
-> GRASS-PCS -> Accounting and have filled it with all transactions
in our PayPal and bank account since 2018. The idea is to use this as
our central accounting tool and note all coming transactions in this
ledger. This will allow to easily extract annual accounts and follow
our current financial situation.
As already discussed we should also review the way we collect
sponsorship money, for different reasons:
- The current PayPal Money pool runs over my personal account which is
not very bus-factor resilient.
- Venka's experience has shown that from some countries it is not easy
to contribute without a PayPal account, e.g. with a credit card.
OSGeo uses a Github sponsorship system which we should advertise as
people can dedicate their contribution to a specific project. However,
AFAIU, the Github sponsorship system is limited to people with a
Github account and only allows deciding on a continuous (monthly), not
a one-shot donation.
In light of this, I would suggest the following for our sponsorship
system:
-
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEkZcgp-Ow$
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEkZcgp-Ow$>
for flexible one-shot, credit-card based sponsorships, including a
series of different options and advantages (ex: receipts) for
sponsors. How we organize this exactly (via fiscal host) is still to
be determined (maybe OSGeo can become a fiscal host for all OSGeo
projects ?).
-
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEk7cbj_mU$
<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
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