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Mon 4 Nov 2024 9:33PM

Creating a collective on Open Collective

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 13

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.

RD

Ravi Dwivedi Tue 24 Dec 2024 10:58AM

@Pirate Praveen I agree.

PP

Pirate Praveen Sun 12 Jan 2025 11:05AM

I found another fiscal host with 0% fees. https://superbloom.design/community/our-support/#fiscal-sponsorship so I'm going to apply with them.

PP

Pirate Praveen Mon 13 Jan 2025 6:01PM

We got an acknowledgement mail. "Thank you for your email and your interest in Superbloom’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program. We very much appreciate the information you have supplied and thank you for completing our form. We will review and be in touch soon."

PP

Pirate Praveen Sun 12 Jan 2025 11:24AM

Created opencollective.com/debphoshfund/ and applied with superbloom, in case they don't accept, we can try Open Source Collective.