OpenCollective to help sustain the project and community

[gusaus]

@paddatrapper

Being able to give key developers even a token amount would be useful.

As noted above, there could be many ways we could leverage the platform and community.

@gusaus

• Incentivize time on LibreTime Development Priorities
• Update and create new documentation , tutorials, and training materials
• Cover hosting cost for marketing and/or demo site(s)
• Project management, community, outreach, marketing

@paddatrapper

It would be useful to have some sort of support structure set up before then though so that when potential backers to come, we have somewhere to point them to.

Many OSS projects on Open Collective are still trying to sort out a process. We’re already setting ourselves up to not only share ideas, but collaborate with complementary projects and communities. List LibreTime on alternativeto.net · Issue #782 · libretime/libretime · GitHub

One such project, Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), provides some inspiration for how to incorporate Open Collective as a way to sustain. New Ways to Support OBS Development | OBS

@paddatrapper

We would need guidelines around who gets paid, etc. (Maybe some sort of bug bounty?)

It would probably make sense to create an issue in our github repo and work out a process in the open. Again there are many other projects experimenting with bounty programs that can serve as inspiration

JHipster’s Bounty System and how it saved the project.

@paddatrapper

The project maintainers or project admins should probably be the ones managing the collective too, but we need solid guidelines around their selection and delegation too.

Unless there are maintainers against the idea of having a LibreTime Open Collective, I’d suggest that one of the project leads apply and invite anyone else who would like to help manage. We could then create an issue in github to work out our guidelines.

There’s also much-improved documentation on the Open Collective side -

Collectives FAQ

Possibly the time is right to finally do this? Let me know if I can help.