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Our September 2024 financial update is here.

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tl;dr: Beehaw has moved over to Open Collective Europe Foundation, please direct your donations there effective immediately.


In some good news, we've successfully moved over to Open Collective Europe Foundation as our new fiscal host. This process has been mercifully quick and fairly painless, for which we're thankful.

Going forward, please make all donations to the Beehaw Collective there instead of the previous Beehaw page affiliated with Open Collective Foundation. We'll be mothballing that one following this post going live and according to OCF should be able to merge the page back into our new one sometime after April.

Our balance of approximately $7,100 is in the process of being transferred and we do not expect issues there. OCF just submitted a transfer request today for us, and OCEF will let us know when that balance hits our new collective.

We would encourage you to manually restart your contribution as soon as possible just for sake of ease and because our financial schedule will be very different going forward. However, starting later this month—at least based on what Open Collective is saying—anybody still signed up to make contributions to the old page should receive an email with the following information:

  • an invitation to renew your contributions on the new collective page
  • direction to a page which will be pre-loaded with the amount and frequency of the contribution you made on the old collective, which you will then confirm

So, don't fret too much if you can't immediately and manually switch. Spaced email reminders should also go out until Open Collective Foundation shuts down at the end of the year. If any of this does not happen, please page us and we'll see what's up.

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[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are you going to report balances in € now?

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

no, everything is still in USD (although i think the switch means we're losing slightly more to payment processing)

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Does this also apply to donation themselves, i.e. that beehaw receives USD donation exclusively?

I have a bank account in EUR, and there are transaction and conversion fees (fixed+variable) each time I make a USD payment.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 14 points 6 months ago

to be honest with you i have no clue what the logistics are for donations themselves. my intuition is... no, having managed our finances for the reports? but Chris almost certainly has a better idea of this than me.

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago

they said Euro, not AUD!

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For those who don’t know, why is this needing to be done? Also, why do you need contributions and what are they being used for?

(BTW, I just got started with a monthly. Thanks for y’all’s work)

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 22 points 6 months ago

our previous fiscal host is dissolving at the end of the year--most of the details are over in our previous announcement post; all contributions go toward keeping the website up and paying for any labor associated with it outside of admin work

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 12 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the update, I'm glad you found a quick solution to this!

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 12 points 6 months ago

Good job getting it done

[–] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

All done! Glad y'all got things sorted. :)

[–] toothpicks@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)