Hi Moritz, Thanks a lot for this initiative! Open collective seems like a pretty cool complement to other existing ways of collecting money.
I was inspecting a bit which other organizations are there, and I found many well known companies and NGOs (See for example: https://opencollective.com/babel). Furthermore, it seems it also allows for recurring contributions with different categories. I do not understand the fiscal host part, but as you say maybe OSGeo can become a fiscal host. Would you ask them too? Cheers, Vero El sáb, 13 mar 2021 a las 16:34, Moritz Lennert (< mlenn...@club.worldonline.be>) escribió: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-psc mailing list > grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc >
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