Financial WG: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 19:28, 6 March 2024

Description	Balancing the books for neuromatch.social
Members	Manisha Sinha
Part of	Mastodon
Active Status	Active

We follow an open finance system on Open Collective with Neuromatch (or Platform 6) as our Fiscal Host and primary sponsor. There is no membership fee to join the instance at present. However, if the members of the instance wish, they are welcome to make voluntary contributions for collective ownership of the instance. All member contributions are appreciated and will go towards system maintenance, honorarium for admins/moderators(?), and DevOps.

You are welcome to submit a feature request. There is no fee associated with this. If you've developed a feature and would like to consider submitting a pull request, please see Mastodon/Hacking

All voluntary contributions, sponsorships, and expenses will be publicly visible on OpenCollective <add link>

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-Members of the instance contribute towards the smooth running and upkeep of the instance. Contributions and budget are publicly available on OpenCollective <add link>
+{{Working Group
+|Description=Balancing the books for neuromatch.social
+|Members=Manisha Sinha
+|Part of=Mastodon
+|Active Status=Active
+|Status=Active
+}}
+<The details are still evolving and the following should be treated as speculative for now. Our Server costs are currently being handled by contributions from Neuromatch, for which we are very grateful and each month's invoices are available to the community on our discord channel "Server costs and invoices".>
-The membership fee is as fellows: ''[Brad suggests that we do not use the term "fee" as it will sound more mandatory then we mean it to be.  Voluntary contributions seems better.  Also, these amounts seem too high and may throttle our growth rate]''
+We follow an open finance system on ''[[Open Collective]]'' with [[Neuromatch]] (or [[Platform 6]]) as our [[Fiscal Host]] and primary sponsor. There is no membership fee to join the instance at present. However, if the members of the instance wish, they are welcome to make voluntary contributions for collective ownership of the instance. All member contributions are appreciated and will go towards system maintenance, honorarium for admins/moderators(?), and DevOps.
-* Students: USD 1 per month. A fee waiver can also be available for those who cannot have their fee covered by either their institution, company, or lab and cannot pay on their own. Participate regardless of your funding status.
-* Postdocs: USD 5 per month
+You are welcome to submit a feature request. There is no fee associated with this. If you've developed a feature and would like to consider submitting a pull request, please see [[Mastodon/Hacking]]
-* PIs: USD 10 per month
-* Industry professionals (non-profit): USD 25 per month
+All voluntary contributions,  sponsorships, and expenses will be publicly visible on OpenCollective <add link>
-* Industry professionals (for-profit): USD 50 per month
+== Subpages ==
-* You can also help us support this instance by donating a custom amount.
+* [[Financial WG/Minutes]]
+* [[Fiscal Host]]
-? The membership fee can be scaled with your location since different countries have different cost of living standards. Please use the custom donation option in this case.
+== See Also ==
-Any amount that you can contribute is appreciated and will go towards system maintenance, honorarium for admins/moderators(?), and DevOps.
+* [[Legal]]
+* [[Finances]]
+[[Category:Working Group]]