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

[Gaba]

On 12/3/22 04:40, bolwerK wrote:
> 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.
>
Sounds good.


> - 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.


Yes. If we are moving systerserver.town to mur.at then it would be good 
to have this funds in Europe as it will be much easier to transfer funds 
to pay for donations in mur.at. If we keep it in digital ocean then it 
may be better to have the funds in the US. But this is something to check.

>
> -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.
>
Good question. I do not know.


>
> 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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