[GRASS-PSC] Accounting and organization of sponsorship

[Michael Barton]

I believe that a 'fiscal host' is a place where you can deposit money and keep it until needed or moved to a different local. It could be a bank account or other account.

Michael
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On Mar 16, 2021, at 12:12 PM, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com<mailto:veroandreo at gmail.com>> wrote:

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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/babel__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!JYQHuCCW-r_wk5ZkIBeP49QU77SHS7hiB50Ncbo81102GGGA-Ce_UmCsrjjKdZlGL5ENBLQ$>). 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<mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>>) escribió:
Dear all,

FYI, for our accounting I have created a continuous ledger in
https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!JYQHuCCW-r_wk5ZkIBeP49QU77SHS7hiB50Ncbo81102GGGA-Ce_UmCsrjjKdZlGqAq9PRw$> -> 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/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!JYQHuCCW-r_wk5ZkIBeP49QU77SHS7hiB50Ncbo81102GGGA-Ce_UmCsrjjKdZlGhkvh6nE$> 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!JYQHuCCW-r_wk5ZkIBeP49QU77SHS7hiB50Ncbo81102GGGA-Ce_UmCsrjjKdZlGW7mvivA$> 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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