Xfce financial contribution administration - Open Collective
Introduction
As of April 2021, Xfce uses Open Collective(OC) to host and manage its financial contributions and their disbursment.
We are currently using two fiscal hosts, Open Source Collective(OSC) and Open Collective Europe(OCE), for handling processing fees and holding Xfce's financial contributions.
Xfce's respective dashboards are:
History: Summary of Xfce's migration away from BountySource to Open Collective.
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Structure of Open Collective relationship
Xfce has created two collectives, known as Xfce and 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: Open Source Collective(OSC) and Open Collective Europe(OCE).
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