[Board] GitHub sponsors

[Jody Garnett]

I am not sure, just reading the docs:
- Setting up GitHub Sponsors for your organization
<https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/setting-up-github-sponsors-for-your-organization>:
due to being based in the US and having a bank account OSGeo should
qualify. Does not appear to take a cut.
- opencollective <https://docs.opencollective.com/>: is also interesting, a
group providing a bank account for small projects, and taking a 10% cut to
pay things.

Both are acceptable alternatives to using PayPal (cannot remember what cut
they take).
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Jody Garnett


On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 09:58, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’m not sure, how does one become a first class org in github? Can we do
> that?
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> *From: *Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 12:45 PM
> *To: *Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Board] GitHub sponsors
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> I am a bit confused, on this one....
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> - Does OSGeo end up as a first class organization for GitHub sponsorship?
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> - Or is it done via the Open Collective take a 10% cut?
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> Jody Garnett
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> On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 13:19, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
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> I have created an OpenCollective organization for OSGeo,
> https://opencollective.com/osgeo
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> Now for verification.
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> Michael Smith
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> OSGeo Treasurer
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> treasurer at osgeo.org
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> *From: *Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jody Garnett <
> jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, May 25, 2020 at 3:49 PM
> *To: *osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Board] GitHub sponsors
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> Michel:
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> Based on today's meeting it appears geotools can be a trial of this.
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> The second question (after email address) is if GeoTools has a bank
> account, or is using a 'fiscal host" like the Open Source Collective.
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> In the case can we check what it would take for OSGeo to be considered a
> 'fiscal host' ?
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> There is some more information here:
> https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/github-sponsored-organizations
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> It is kind of interesting seeing this infrastructure setup to handle just
> the financial aspects of open source sustainability (while GitHub and
> others focus on the 'forge" side).
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> Jody Garnett
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> On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 15:28, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We noticed that several of our projects qualify for
> https://github.com/sponsors
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> As GeoTools project lead, how would the board feel if we signed up for
> this (as a zero-fees replacement for current PayPal donation button)?
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> Note our project does not run a separate bank account so some
> coordination with the osgeo treasurer is required here.
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> Jody Garnett
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