OpenClimate.fund

[Ly0n]

As discussed at the last community meeting, we are going to start another very simple funding experiment. To increase the incentive to contribute to OpenSustain.tech, contributors will be able to select an open source project as part of the pull request that will receive funding from a common pool that we will be collecting for. The contributor may not be affiliated with the project that receives the donation. The user workflow would be:

1. Add Open Source Project to OpenSustain.tech
2. Choose a Donation Link on OpenClimate.fund from a listed OpenSustain.tech project or any dependency.
3. Add the donation link to the Pull Request.
4. Donate to an open source you are not associated with from a larger pool the OpenSustain.tech community is collecting for.

[andrew]

Create donation pool ( at Open Source Collective ?! )

Open Collective does have the concept of a "fund" as well, might be able to use that?

[Ly0n]

Open Collective does have the concept of a "fund" as well, might be able to use that?

That's exactly what we need. Here a link with more information: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/organizations/funds

It might be much easier to integrate the list of possible donation options directly into OpenClimate.fund instead of integrating it into ClimateTriage.

What would be a good way to present the data to a user? Maybe just as a table?

[Ly0n]

Here is a summary of some of the discussions we have had so far. @andrew filtered the projects for donation links
gist.github.com/andrew/032017247a16d49a8bd904f442221250
We would need to filter these projects for activity, as some of them are no longer active.

If we add sponsor links from the top 3 contributors of active projects, we might end up with about 300 options.

What I'm still not sure about is how to distribute the money from a technical point of view. You can see the variety of donation platforms here: gist.github.com/andrew/4100c9fd9488ef55cf0051f3dff2cad4

We could start with GitHub Sponsors, as I expect to cover most cases of sponsoring the top 3 contributors here. However, we would have to pay fees twice if we collect the donations once and then redistribute them.

[Ly0n]

Just one very simple way to significantly increase the amount of possible donations options would be to add the Top100 of dependencies within the ecosystem.

[lappemic]

Created the open-climate-fund repo and will push a first prototype as discussed today with @Ly0n.

[Ly0n]

Thanks @lappemic for a great meeting today. Here are the action items we discussed to launch OpenClimate.fund this year:

• Add another Grist spreadsheet showing possible donations from GitHub sponsors and the Open Source Collective) of projects and organisations. @lappemic
• Test workflow donating from protontypes orgs via GitHub Sponsors and Open Source Collective. @Ly0n
  • Modify existing python script: https://github.com/protontypes/open-sustainable-technology/blob/main/.github/workflows/ecosystems_to_grist.py @lappemic
• Create blog post announcing OpenClimate.fund @Ly0n
• Create some more content about the 'why OpenClimate.fund is needed'. @Ly0n
• Add OpenClimate.fund to Pull Request Template with the hashtag '#openclimatefund' @Ly0n
• Design Website
  • Collect beautiful open source images of environmental sustainability projects. @Ly0n
  • Create logo similar to ClimateTriage.com
  • Let's put together some social media preview cards and test them out.

[Ly0n]

Source: https://github.com/protontypes/organization-documents/blob/master/graphics/OpenClimatefund_paths.svg