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Mon 4 Nov 2024 9:33PM

Creating a collective on Open Collective

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 12

Now that we have a list of high priority tasks and want to raise funds, we should create a collective on OpenCollective.com The default fiscal host for Free Software projects is Open Source Collective, but they usually expect a classic project and not a "meta" project like ours I think. Also they charge a fee of 10% or close to it. Should we ask someone already into Free Software mobile like Purism or FuriLabs or Pine64, if they are willing to be fiscal host without charging a fee, as it would directly benefit them? OpenCollective allows any legal entity to be a fiscal host and handle finances.

BL

Bart Louwers Mon 4 Nov 2024 9:41PM

Open Source Collective collects a 10% fee on incoming funds, correct. https://docs.oscollective.org/how-it-works/fees

I am working for MapLibre as maintainer. We are also a "meta" project and use OSC. I think we've been quite happy with them overall.

PP

Pirate Praveen Thu 14 Nov 2024 12:27PM

I think we can go ahead with Open Source Collective as a fiscal host and if we find other fiscal hosts that don't charge a fee later, we can consider hosting future campaigns there.