XFCE Project: Migrate Your Financial Contributions to OpenCollective
Since the XFCE Desktop Environment It is one of the oldest, known and most used, among those currently existing, we are usually aware of its news and technical updates. And a few days ago the Development Team of the "XFCE Project" has brought us interesting news.
It refers to the steps carried out by the "XFCE Project" in conjunction with the website of OpenCollective to achieve better fundraising, that is, better manage your financial contributions.
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Before going fully into this news, it seems logical to remind those who may not know or remember that it is OpenCollective, which is, according to one of our previous publications related to it, the following:
"An online financing platform for open and transparent communities. That provides the necessary tools to collect and share the finances collected with total transparency. That is, they are an ideal website for communities (collaboration groups, meetings, open source projects, among others) to transparently raise and disburse money for the benefit of their members and registered projects, among those who want to support them." Open Collective and Anartist: Interesting Free and Open Culture Websites
The XFCE Project and OpenCollective join forces
What step has the XFCE Project taken to improve its finances?
According to the following link of the May 30th 2021, which takes us to an email sent by Kevin bowen, collaborator of the work team of the XFCE Desktop Environment, the following was publicly reported:
"The XFCE Project Development Team has migrated to OpenCollective to manage their financial contributions: Contributions can now be processed in both US dollars ($) and euros (€). If you want to make a contribution, explore the following link for more details. Earlier this month, Xfce, as part of an overall effort to migrate financial contributions from
bountysource.com, he joined toOpenCollective.comto manage your finances in the future. The reason for this change is, briefly summarized in this other link.""In addition, the XFCE Project Development Team has created two collectives, known as'Xfce'Y'xfce-eu'respectively. So that the former is in charge of processing and managing all transactions related to contributions and financial donations in US dollars using methods such as PayPal, SWIFT transfers and credit cards. Meanwhile, the Xfce-eu collective is in charge of processing and managing all transactions in euros using SEPA transfers and credit cards."
Finally, they add that:
"Aside from managing processing fees and maintaining the financial contributions of the XFCE Project, Open Collective also provides resources for payment authorization and dispersal, monthly reporting, and transaction transparency. We estimate that the remaining funds on bountysource will be transferred and distributed between the two OpenCollective fiscal hosts by the end of next month. And in the future, there may be additional announcements regarding fundraising goals, budgets, and the implementation of additional OpenCollective features."
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about the recent noticia offered by the team in charge of «Proyecto XFCE» about his steps carried out in conjunction with the website of OpenCollective to achieve better fundraising, that is, better manage your financial contributions; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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