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====== Xfce financial contribution administration - Open Collective ======

  * **[[#Introduction|Introduction]]**
  * **[[#News|News]]**
  * **[[#Structure of Open Collective relationship|Structure of Open Collective relationship]]**
  * **[[#Organizational Roles|Organizational Roles]]**
  * **[[#Resources|Resources]]**

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===== Introduction =====


As of April 2021, Xfce uses [[https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/introduction|Open Collective(OC)]] to host and manage its financial contributions and their disbursment.

We are currently using two fiscal hosts, [[https://opencollective.com/opensource|Open Source Collective(OSC)]] and [[https://opencollective.com/europe|Open Collective Europe(OCE)]], for handling processing fees and holding Xfce's financial contributions.

Xfce's respective dashboards are:
  * **[[https://opencollective.com/xfce|Xfce(U.S)]]**
  * **[[https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu|Xfce-eu]]**

History: [[https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2020/06/18/why-bountysource-why/|Summary of Xfce's migration away from BountySource to Open Collective]].

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===== News =====

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Please note that the announcement on 20240228 by Open Collective(OC) of [[https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/|Open Collective Foundation's(OCF) dissolution]] will have no foreseeable impact upon Xfce's existing or future fiscal standing.
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===== Structure of Open Collective relationship =====

Xfce has created two collectives, known as [[https://opencollective.com/xfce|Xfce]] and [[https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu|Xfce-eu]], 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. 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: **[[https://opencollective.com/opensource|Open Source Collective(OSC)]]** and **[[https://opencollective.com/europe|Open Collective Europe(OCE)]]**.

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===== Organizational Roles =====

Current, as of February 2024, the administrators of Xfce's Open Collective relationship are as follows:

  * Romain Bouvier
  * Kevin Bowen
  * Andre Miranda
  * Alexander Schwinn
  * Simon Steinbeiss

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===== Resources =====

Links to Open Collective resources

  * [[https://opencollective.com/|Main Site]]
  * [[https://docs.opencollective.com/|Documentation]]
  * [[https://github.com/opencollective|Code repository]]
  * [[https://blog.opencollective.com/|Blog]]
  * [[https://opencollective.com/pricing|Pricing]]

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