Open Collective - Make your community sustainable. Collect and spend money transparently. Question to the Yarn.social and (new) Salty.im and greater Twtxt community... > Should we consider applying for Open Collective funding? > Would this help us in any way? > Anyone have any experience in this? > Would anyone help drive this? #YarnSocial #SaltyIM #OpenCollective ---- Topic for the call today?

(#zaxghrq) @prologic OpenCollective is pretty solid if you want to accept donations, it takes away a lot of the legal questions at a modest cut. Sandstorm has one, we will be using it more soon.

(#zaxghrq) And since the cut is just a portion of donated funds, there's really no cost to having it set up. It costs nothing if you aren't bringing anything in via it.

(#zaxghrq) @ocdtrekkie Sounds like a good idea then. How do we attract funds though? We're still quite small and niche, but it would be nice to grow -- but that means growing pods (as is the design)

(#zaxghrq) Correction, growing the number of pods.

(#zaxghrq) Hmmm, what would you do with funds you raise?

(#zaxghrq) @ocdtrekkie Pay for folks like Maeraj that's working on the Salty Chat App and _hopefully eventually_ a new native App for Yarn.social too 👌 -- Pay for Yarn.social to host geographical free multi-user pods around the globe to help grow the network.

(#zaxghrq) @prologic I was gonna join the call... but I'm tired. That's probably a good list though, question is how many are willing to pay how much towards those goals. More users would definitely help.

(#zaxghrq) @ocdtrekkie No problems! 👌