[Adminsysters] [systertown] Re: info on how open collective works

[bolwerK]

hi great
to have an overview
let's do it :

- we would opt for /2/ FISCAL HOST
as we can forward funds, donations into the open collective and 
reimburse people+ attribute fees.

- we think it is important it is in Europe - for dunds and we wonder if 
it is easy to demand with a fiscal hosts funds and get them transfered 
to the open collective account.

-name - ? do we refer to systerserver - or do we have 'another name' 
which can hosts different servers/sysadmins costs  & fees. e.g. 
SYSADMIN!Unite
It would be great more independent sysadmins who wants to work on the 
feminist servers can join.


xm


On 01/12/2022 19:42, Gaba wrote:
> On 12/1/22 17:01, Gaba wrote:
>> Hey!
>>
>> Here is the information about open collective that I got from their 
>> documentation.
>>
>> To create an account 
>> (https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/create-collective) 
>> we will need to have individual accounts that manage the collective 
>> page in opencollective.com. We need to make  a decision if to have a 
>> fiscal host (pay a fee but no need for bank account) or go 
>> independent (no fee but need a bank account).
>>
>> Two options:
>>
>> 1. Independent collective:
>>     1. Unlimited access to all features
>>     2. No fees if we hold money in your own bank account
>>     3. We would need to see how taxes work here.
>> 2. Through a fiscal host:
>>     1. Unlimited access to all features
>>     2. A fiscal host is an organization that welcomes others to operate
>>        through their structure, so projects can use the host’s legal
>>        entity and bank account instead of setting up their own. The
>>        host provides administrative services, oversight, and support
>>     3. Fees depend on who is the fiscal host. It could be 10%, 5% or 0%
>>     4. Tax-exempt or charity status
>>     5. Options for fiscal hosts:
>>        https://opencollective.com/search?isHost=true
>>         1. Open Collective Europe hosts 363 collectives (for example
>>            host lurk.org and mastodon.world) :
>>            https://opencollective.com/europe
>>         2. Open Collective US hosts 3384 collectives (mostly open
>>            source projects, for example mastodon):
>>            https://opencollective.com/opensource
>>         3. Fiscal hosts for mastodon projects
>>            https://opencollective.com/search?q=mastodon . Some of this
>>            projects are on their own and some have other fiscal hosts
>>            like Accountable
>>            https://opencollective.com/the-social-change-nest
>>
>> To pay people: Money contributed to a Collective goes to the bank 
>> account of the fiscal host. When someone wants to be paid, they 
>> submit the expense through the collective page in the open collective 
>> website. After one of us approve it, the person is reimbursed via 
>> PayPal. "Expenses are visible publicly, so everyone can see how much 
>> money was spent and on what (though private details like emails, 
>> names, and addresses are only visible to that user and the admins)." 
>> https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/collectives
>>
>> About expenses: 
>> https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/expenses
>>
>
> More resources on running instances 
> https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Collectively-owned-instances#resources-on-running-an-instance
>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> gaba
>>
>>
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