Xfce project and financial contributions

[Yousuf Philips]

After we got rejected, I had reached out to the person handling social
media for Endeavor and he found it strange that Xfce would be rejected and
said "If he [Kevin] wanted to join the team, then I understand the
rejection. This is only reserved for the founders and our fiscal host. If
he has an Open Collective account he should be joining it. By it, I mean
the collective."

Regards,
Yousuf


On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:15 AM Kevin Bowen <kevin.bowen at gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears that Open Collective has admitted an error and reversed their
> decision for not allowing Xfce to join one of their communities/fiscal
> hosts. *shrug* I'll pick this up again next week.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 4/15/21 1:41 PM, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > Update:
> >
> > Open Collective is quickly being moved off of the table as a viable
> > fiscal host for the Xfce project.
> >
> > I had applied to join one of there collective, and was rejected
> > because Xfce did not meet their criteria.
> >
> > https://www.oscollective.org/#criteria
> >
> > I can only guess that Xfce is not popular, or open source enough for
> > them. Perhaps we don't have enough GitHub stars on our repositories.
> > :-/ I don't really know as they have not responded to my specific
> > questions.
> >
> > I am still sort of engaged with them; but, this reception may be a
> > good indicator that we may not want to deal with them. We shall see.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > On 4/13/21 9:22 PM, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> The Xfce project is currently in the process of looking to engage
> >> with a new
> >> organization to help us manage our collective funds as well as allow
> >> us to
> >> solicit donations and encourage fundraising efforts directed to end
> >> users who
> >> would like to support Xfce financially.
> >>
> >> Back in June 2020, Simon had elaborated
> >> [here](
> https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2020/06/18/why-bountysource-why/)
> >> as well as
> >> [here](https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2020/06/26/bountysource-update/
> )
> >> on some of the issues encountered with Bountysource and that Xfce
> >> has, subsequently,
> >> disabled its bug bounties and is looking to separate from its
> >> association with
> >> Bountysource.
> >>
> >> As of this month, the Xfce team is considering signing up with
> >> [opencollective](https://opencollective.com/) to assist us in
> >> managing donations and financial contributions.
> >>
> >> There are a few other options/orgs that are still being considered;
> >> but, opencollective is looking like a contender for where we will be
> >> moving towards to manage collecting funds.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hopefully, we can announce, in a few weeks, that we are open for
> >> business; and,
> >> a few new donation buttons can be put up on our pages. Perhaps we can
> >> even do a PR push to do a fundraiser. I am open to suggestions on
> >> how, exactly, to pursue this.
> >>
> >> That being said, I would like to open this up to the general dev
> >> mailing list for discussion and feedback for at least two weeks
> >> before we make a final decision. As of today, the decision to go with
> >> opencollective is not yet final.
> >>
> >> Any constructive feedback is welcome. Additionally, we are open to
> >> considering other sites/orgs for handling our donations.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> kevin
> >>
> >>
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