[Board] GitHub sponsors

[Michael Smith]

OK, we are now on the waitlist to be approved directly. Without OpenCollective.

 

Mike

 

 

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Michael Smith

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treasurer at osgeo.org 

 

 

From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 1:29 PM
To: Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
Cc: osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Board] GitHub sponsors

 

I am not sure, just reading the docs:

- 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: 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?

 

M

 

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

 

I am a bit confused, on this one....

- Does OSGeo end up as a first class organization for GitHub sponsorship?

- Or is it done via the Open Collective take a 10% cut?

 

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On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 13:19, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:

I have created an OpenCollective organization for OSGeo, https://opencollective.com/osgeo

 

Now for verification.

 

Mike

 

 

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Michael Smith

OSGeo Treasurer

treasurer at osgeo.org 

 

 

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

 

Michel:

 

Based on today's meeting it appears geotools can be a trial of this.

 

The second question (after email address) is if GeoTools has a bank account, or is using a 'fiscal host" like the Open Source Collective.

 

In the case can we check what it would take for OSGeo to be considered a 'fiscal host' ?

 

There is some more information here: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/github-sponsored-organizations

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

 

 

On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 15:28, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

We noticed that several of our projects qualify for https://github.com/sponsors 

 

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)?

 

Note our project does not run a separate bank account so some coordination with the osgeo treasurer is required here.

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