OpenRefine Funding

[Thad Guidry]

Hello team,

I have started a OpenRefine fund for work on bugs, features, etc.

(I decided to flow my Freebase consulting dollars into this new fund that we need to create somehow)

Currently the fund is managed on my personal PayPal account, but I would like some help in figuring out how to transfer this money into a more formal OpenRefine fund.

Tom, anyone, thoughts ?

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[Tom Morris]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Thad Guidry <thadg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have started a OpenRefine fund for work on bugs, features, etc.

(I decided to flow my Freebase consulting dollars into this new fund that we need to create somehow)

Currently the fund is managed on my personal PayPal account, but I would like some help in figuring out how to transfer this money into a more formal OpenRefine fund.

Tom, anyone, thoughts ?

I believe the standard advice from the beancounters is to not do things like this with your personal account.  As I understand it, you risk the flowthrough getting counted as personal income by the tax authorities. 

Paul Makepeace had mentioned BountySource a while back (and I thought he had his project on it, but can't find it now).  There may be other bounty systems around that we could leverage.  If folks are interested in that, I'd be happy to get us signed up with one or more of the services.

Tom

[Thad Guidry]

There is no Tax avoidance.  It's my personal income, TRUE.  And I am making a gift (or a charitable donation if and when OpenRefine has a charity structure in place).

Let me know when and where you want me to make that gift or donation (and the future ones)

-Thad

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[Martin Magdinier]

I think Thad question (how we should manage current and future development for cash and how does the money flow) fall into a larger question which is what is OpenRefine governance model.

I've started this week to read about open source governance model and I was about to open the discussion here soon. I think OpenRefine is definitly missing an high level document defining responsability, how the code is controlled and how one can contribute to the project.  

This kind of development for cash can definitly be clarified in this governance document too.

Martin

[Thad Guidry]

I think BountySource would be ideal for us for a number of reasons, (and 10% fee it reasonable for them to ask)  Primarily BountySource would take care of all the funding tracking against OpenRefine issues and payouts.  That's a big win for us not having to worry about much except coding itself...and the coders collect their payment via the funding platform.

So the only remaining item is what Martin is referring to...the governance document.

[Thad Guidry]

Tom, we are already setup on BountySource  (I tweaked the logo url , homepage , and repo url).

Bounties just need to be applied to issues now.  What are our most pressing currently ?

This one needs to be solved 1st I would say...

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/805

somehow getting the Freebase Reconciliation service sub-hosted or whatever...it's a shame the community cannot perform this function any longer.

So, here's a small bounty towards that...but I know it will need to be solved via hosting as well or somesuch...anyways

Hi Thad,

You've just created a $68 bounty on Freebase Reconciliation Service hangs when selected (working...). Thanks for the support, now go spread the word!

If you have any questions, please check out our FAQs or contact us at any of the ways below.

[Tom Morris]

Cool.  Thanks Thad!

One of the nice things about the BountySource model is that everyone can bounty what is important to them and developers can choose between scratching their own itch and working on a bounty  We don't need to have global consensus on either end.

Tom

[Thad Guidry]

Righto.  Exactly.

[Thad Guidry]

Oh, I did want to point out that if we think it would make things better/easier... we can certainly split issues into their component parts and ask to reapply bounties across them as needed.

[Thad Guidry]

And we should always ask the users how supplied a bounty...WHAT is it they are actually needing or want to see fix...before we start working on an issue.