OpenCollective Spending Proposal

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@robbt Thanks for chiming in and congraduations

I think the primary goal of this discussion is to help @paddatrapper craft the governance and spending proposal.

OpenCollective Spending Proposal

Proposal v2 Terms Contributor - a member of the Contributors team of the Github LibreTime organisation Maintainer - a member of the Maintainers team of the Github LibreTime organisation Administrator - a member of the Administrator team of the Github LibreTime organisation Leadership structure The project is lead by a board of Administrators. This board answers to the Contributors. It decides on the group of Maintainers (with the help of the existing maintainers) and administers the Open Co…

We’ve had some good back/forth in this discussion feedback from the actual administrators and maintainers is pretty essential.

OpenCollective Spending Proposal

I’m not sure. Hopefully they can speak up here… No. I think I am conflating two things in this proposal and should remove all code-related things from it. This section is referring to Maintainers in the code perspective, not managing the open collective. This is the current process Yes. This is to help ensure that the community is the entity in charge of the money and prevents it being a authoritarian dictatorship with the management of finances. Sure, code projects are included and I c…

We’ve also picked up on this related discussion about how (and what it means) to sustain the project -

LibreTime services (and other ways to sustain the project)

With regards to using platforms like Github sponsors, Open Collective, and Patreon as tools to sustain LibreTime, we might want to take a look at OBS as a model - Contributing to the OBS Project Contribute | OBS Thank you for your interest in supporting our work! Open Broadcaster Software is an open source project freely available under the GPL and developed by a dedicated team of passionate individuals. Your contributions help support our developers and fund equipment purchases for easier t…

We’re also talking about goals and needs with folks from LibreTime, AzuraCast, and other complementary projects in this issue. Would be great if you were able to chime in there Define common set of roles and responsibilities based on goals and needs of projects · Issue #4 · OpenProducer/community · GitHub