Proposal: OpenJS Foundation as a Fiscal Host in Open Collective to Reduce Fees

[UlisesGascon]

It is proposed that the OpenJS Foundation becomes a fiscal host in Open Collective, potentially lowering the fees associated with other fiscal hosts. By acting as a direct fiscal sponsor, OpenJS could streamline the financial management for its open-source projects and communities, reducing overhead and administrative costs.

Would it be feasible for OpenJS to explore this option, and what steps would be needed for implementation?

[voxpelli]

Some thoughts / notes:

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Fee wise, it would be compared to the 10% incoming fee of the Open Source Collective but would then also make it so that any donation from OpenJSF to an Open Source Collective project would incur a 10% fee, essentially making every roundtrip between an OpenJSF project and an OSC project shave at least 10% of the money – making sponsorship of dependencies more expensive, conflicting with the ambitions outlined by eg. @nzakas for ESLint: Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability

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Screenshot from when applying to GitHub Sponsors. Such integrations happen between fiscal hosts and GitHub etc, so all such ones would need to be replicated as well.

[tobie]

Happy to help with this. Should be valuable for ESP too.

[voxpelli]

Some changes since this was discussed:

The Open Collective Platform is now owned and operated by the new non-profit "Open Finance Consortium" that's co-founded by the two largest open source collectives on the platform.

In their post they say:

Open Source Collective and Open Collective Europe (the two largest organizations using the platform today) are founding members of the new non-profit organization and are supporting its establishment.

The new organization will be expanding its membership immediately, inviting fiscal hosts, large independent collectives, and corporate sponsors who will collectively control the board and guide the organization.

Organizations committed to financial transparency, particularly those using the Open Collective Platform, are welcome to apply for membership. Contact us!

So OpenJSF or eg. Linux Foundation could actually join "Open Finance Consortium" as members now, which could make sense for eg. LF to investigate as a complement / replacement for LFX (#10)