[GRASS-PSC] Accounting and organization of sponsorship

[Veronica Andreo]

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 (<
mlennert at 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
>
>
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