Xfce project and financial contributions

[kevin.bowen at gmail.com]

That was definitely not the case. But thank you.

On 4/18/21 6:23 PM, Yousuf Philips wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <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/
>     <https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2020/06/18/why-bountysource-why/>)
>     >> as well as
>     >>
>     [here](https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2020/06/26/bountysource-update/
>     <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/
>     <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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