Open Collective
opencollective.com
Make your community sustainable. Collect and spend money transparently.

I am of course aware of Liberapay (and Patreon).

I remember reading some criticism of the Open Collective platform before, but I can’t quite remember the details.

Anyone has a good take on the pro and cons?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    8·
    4 年前

    Its not bad, but its overly complicated compared to liberapay. The idea of writing expense reports for open source devs needing to pay rent and buy groceries is just silly.

    • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
      8·
      4 年前

      To be exact, I want always to know where goes the money I donate. Even if it is for that.

      As a Veganism, Free Software and Security advocate I care about it a lot.

      • birokop@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 年前

        Leave them some privacy. Just because they’re open source devs doesn’t mean they have to tell you where they spend your money. It’s a donation after all, not funding.

        • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 年前

          Has nothing to do at all with being “open source dev” but with ethics.

          It is the same I require to donate to the food bank here since they don’t accept direct donations of material and only money.

          Edited: If I had the opportunity to donate something specific I would do. Believe me.