Community Call - Open Collective
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Call Details: 8am PST, Tuesday, Dec 11th [sign up for reminders](https://teamup.com/event/show/id/oC5uAY2ycyH2DDPEZra7GnSvLCoooK)

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/749495757

EthMagicians Discussion: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/community-call-with-open-collective/2085

Pia Mancini, one of the founders of Open Collective, will be presenting an overview of [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/) and answering questions from call participants.

Please list questions below.

## About Open Collective

> Open Collective enables groups to quickly set up a collective, raise funds and manage them transparently.

From the [About page](https://opencollective.com/about):

> Meetups, open source projects, parent associations, neighborhood associations, pet projects, clubs, unions, movements, non-profits, business incubators - in order to operate, all of them are forced to use a physical glass jar, ask a sponsor to directly pay their expenses or front the huge overhead of setting up and managing a corporation or a non-profit. It’s either inefficient and opaque or it’s overkill.

Other useful reading & links:
* https://opencollective.com/learn-more

## Questions

### When will you have multicurrency support?

January 2019

Multi-wallet collective

Collective has a single wallet

Open source -- USD in US, or EUR in EU

### Will you support donations in crypto?

### Who are the organizers? Why should they have special power to accept/reject invoices? Is it not the backer/sponsor who should decide on it?

### Should a collective be a legal entity in order to issue invoices?

### What kind of Software or Services will you provide exactly?

### What is the difference between "Open Collective" and usual "registered association" (or _"eingetragener Verein, e.V."_ in german law)?

### Host Setup

Creating a host?

Stripe account

Paypal? -- can pay however you like

To receive donations -- can operate without Stripe

Host: makes it easy to manage many different bucks of money

Many communities -- eg regional meetups
Who are you receiving funding? Can see at a glance, what each community has
Really great

### No organization

Choose a host organization -- in the UK, Open Collective UK
Like to have everything
If Boris is open to receiving applications

CivicTech -- Open Collective Paris

Can also use your own bank account

Transparency helps where trust is low

DjangoGirls in Marseilles -- one of the organizers, lets use my bank account

### Not exposed choosing a collective

Github --> US Open Collective

When we started with JS community

Projects -- Symphony example -- different level of granularity

Design priority --> create collective flow

### Liability within a Collective

Community of communities

How does it work on a legal sense?

Fiscal sponsorship legislation

Holding funds on behalf of collective

because collectives can't withdraw directly

Not an MSB

That level of accountability makes it OK for us to do what we do

In Europe different -- depends on donations, services, etc.

Europe has un-incorporated association -- insurance is from that group

It's a legal entity -- or a fiscal sponsor, responsiblity of the host

If you want to do your own host

### Operations / Structure Discussion?

Slack

Discourse -- abandoned

forum.opencollective.com

### Fees

Host fee you want -- WWC add 10%

Open Collective is 5%

## Notes

Command and Control

Corps to have worldwide presence

or

Individuals

No space for the community

Financial mechanism enabling communities to have the funding and economic power

Minimal Viable Structure

Open Collective

Economic unit

Community come together to do it -- because they can't -- structure

Who is the president of an open source project

Crazy to expect structure for every community

One server per plug

Accountants and lawyers all the time

Open source was the first community -- very broad space

For open source, open collective is a pain killer -- use OC or something like it, or no funding at all

Some become Foundations, most of them don't
Most of them it doesn't make sense

Thinking about Colony

We had two options -- full blown decentralized world -- Colony, Mis?, DAO incorporated

We felt like that was the future -- not there yet
On the other hand
Corporations don't understand that

Companies like AirBnB -- give an invoice
Don't give them an invoice

Decentralized space doesn't have invoice

Fiscal sponsorship

Network of host organizations -- virtualize yourself

Europe, Brussels, Mexico
Host their own collectives

Foundation -- hosts collective etc in the US

Partnering up

Enable anyone to become a host

Wordpress Foundation become a host

TechSoup host for NetSquared

Women Who Code -- for all the meetups

Depends on the hosts -- provide services, like invoices, but onboard vendors of those companies
Provide insurance for meetups and conferences
We file 1099 who submits an invoice -- way you get money out of Open Collective

If you host a project yourself -- you are your own host -- if you are hosted, need to submit invoice or hours worked

Submit something to be re-imbursed

Money is sitting in someone's bank account -- need paperwork

1099 filed to the IRS

Whenever you create a

Plugin in your own bank account
Create a host for your community

In Paris last week -- open science -- create a host dedicated to this in Europe

Working

Default support tier -- testing in beta

Companies can purchase support

Hesitant -- maintainer burn out

Best next steps -- standard agreement

Releasing mid January -- a way to support your dependency -- collective gets 100, what goes down to dependencies

Pledges -- maintainers can claim it

Protocol Labs -- SourceCred

Aragon -- don't want to receive

On Friday, new ledger system -- once that's done, can start shipping

Brooke:
Extremely important work -- communities, conferences, etc.
Massive headach

Pia:
Expensive

Open GraphQL

Janky event system -- want to charge a fee for it

Open Collecive apps

v2 released

Webpack has a points system -- PRs receive points
Can use to vote on roadmap

Or exchange up to a cap for money

email you use on OC is what you use for voting

Chair of Democracy Earth -- sovrin -- going to merge these two -- one of these options for governance of collectives

Lumia -- decisions, execute in OC

Someone makes $100 --> 5% split to OC Inc
95% goes to host (stripe fees)

Available budget is

Full amount i

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