[GRASS-PSC] Accounting and organization of sponsorship

[Moritz Lennert]

Am 13. März 2021 17:10:47 MEZ schrieb Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>:
>Thanks for the ledger.
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>Open Collective looks interesting. Have you had previous experience with it?

None on my side. Don't know if anyone else has.

Moritz

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>On Mar 13, 2021, at 8:34 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be<mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
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>Dear all,
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>FYI, for our accounting I have created a continuous ledger in 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.
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>As already discussed we should also review the way we collect sponsorship money, for different reasons:
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>- The current PayPal Money pool runs over my personal account which is not very bus-factor resilient.
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>- 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.
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>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.
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>In light of this, I would suggest the following for our sponsorship system:
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>- 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 ?).
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>- https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Ky886vUYnPSDdAcnZ5MfhPOQYGZ75hgkbyygGbWyerc3w2Whifx2_ZHT7M5axLEk7cbj_mU$  for recurring sponsorship.
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>- Our bank account for direct money transfer, mostly within Europe.
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>Does this sound reasonable for everyone ? If yes, I will look into the details of Open Collective and create our system.
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>Moritz
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