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Office hour notes: 2020.03.03
- Kenton
- Lyre Calliope
- Ian Denhardt
- Adam Bliss
- Pia Mancini
- Zach Balleisen
- Pia Mancini joins us from OpenCollective
- What is everyone working on?
- Migrating meeting notes to the wiki (done!)
What questions do we have for Pia?
- How does the github integration work?
- Are there best practices for how to establish a basic governance structure for fund allocation?
OpenCollective is a tool for groups and organizations to raise and manage funds. Projects can be paired with fiscal hosts. Organizations can become fiscal hosts and sponsor other projects on the platform.
Github repo is necessary, but doesn't have to be the main repo.
Features: Customizable fundraising tiers, financial contributors, budget, ability to see core contributors. Expense tracking. Stripe for payment processing. Features for events.
Fiscal Sponsor: Open Source Collective 501(c)6. Less strict than a nonprofit 501(c)3. Responsiblities as a fiscal sponsor include collecting and dispersing funds, taxes, etc. Makes it possible to collect donations from organizations.
Github Sponsors integration: people can pay into the collective from within github and don't have to go to the open collective page.
We have Trademark questions. May be a nonissue.
Someone from the community needs to be added to Github organization.
Governance questions. How do we spend money? Different collectives have different ways of making these decisions. Some use Loomio, cobudget. Some set hourly rates. Some define a core contributor group and disperse funds to them as a body. Rewarding non-code contributions in addition to code contributions can be a good place to start to set community expectations on what activities are valued.
Consider spending money on getting people to meet face to face for sprints, conferences, workshops, retreats, etc.
Sponsorship perks can happen tied to sponsorship levels. Kickstarter style.
Next steps:
- Kenton will talk with lawyer about github questions.
- Lyre will take point on setting up collective and facilitating conversations to get it going. Communications, governance.
Jade has control of meetup accounts, wants to transfer ownership to active community members.
Ian and Lyre are gonna talk about reviving the Boston meetup.
Service that takes care of certs for sandcats ran out. Extended it for 20 weeks for $500. Kenton will work on replacement based on LetsEncrypt, Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare other stuff.
Zach Balleisen! Comes to us with an interest in secure self-hosting away from the big 5+ platforms. Will be offering feedback on docs as he learns the platform. Saw reviving sandstorm blog post. Wants to see sandstorm usable enough for his parents.
Interested in seeing standard protocols documented for how things talk to each other.