Re: Xfce financial contributions migrate to OpenCollective
Kevin Bowen <[email protected]>
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[Resend with better formatting] Summary: Xfce has migrated to OpenCollective to manage its financial contributions. Contributions can now be processed in both U.S. Dollars($) and Euros(€). If you would like to make a contribution, see [1] for details. ---- Earlier this month, Xfce, as part of an overall effort to migrate financial contributions away from bountysource.com, joined OpenCollective.com to manage its finances going forward. The reason for this change is, briefly, summarized in this [2] blogpost. Xfce has created two collectives, known as 'Xfce'[4] and 'Xfce-eu'[5], respectively. `Xfce` will process and handle all financial contribution/donation transactions in U.S. Dollars supporting methods such as PayPal, SWIFT transfers and credit cards. The Xfce-eu collective is set up to allow transactions in EUR currency using SEPA transfers and credit cards. In addition to handling processing fees and holding Xfce's financial contributions, Open Collective also provides resources for payment authorization and dispersal, monthly reporting, transaction transparency. See [6] for an example of the last two features. Note: processing times and fees differ between to the two collectives. Briefly, 'Xfce' is a 10% fee, and 'Xfce-eu' is 6%. Details on this can be found under the two collectives' fiscal hosts: 'Open Source Collective' [7] and 'Open Collective Europe' [8]. It is estimated that the remaining funds in bountysource will be transferred out and distributed amongst the two OpenCollective fiscal hosts sometime by the end of next month. Going forward, there may be additional announcements regarding fundraising goals, budgets, and implementation of additional OpenCollective functionality. At the current time, there are no plans for expenditures, disbursements, or purchases. I realize that there may be a bit of terminology that is unclear, or unfamiliar. If interested, please take some time to look over [3] for additional details on OpenCollective, its services and functionality. Let me know if you have questions and I will try to answer them to the best of my ability. I am usually available on the #xfce-dev channel (@maggotbrain). Thanks for your time, Kevin Bowen [1]: https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/start#financial_contributions [2]: https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2020/06/18/why-bountysource-why/ [3]: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/introduction [4]: https://opencollective.com/xfce [5]: https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu [6]: https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/supporters [7]: https://opencollective.com/opensource [8]: https://opencollective.com/europe _______________________________________________ Xfce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce http://www.xfce.org