Sponsorship

[lukemalcolm]

Hi,

Are there any plans for sponsorship for hugo-book? Github Sponsor or similar? Just so people can throw some money in the pot for the great work done here.

L

[alex-shpak]

Hi!
Sorry for late response! Well, I enrolled in github sponsorship program, but didn't put it up yet. It is not very clear how to do taxes, but maybe some day :)

[michaeltlombardi]

@alex-shpak with as many stars as hugo-book has, it might be worth considering hosting an Open Collective via the Open Source Fiscal Host. OC is a way for people and groups to relegate legal/fiscal reporting/etc requirements to a fiscal host so you don't have to worry about incorporating or anything like that (just your personal tax reporting from what you get paid out).

There are numerous open source projects already hosted as collectives, including curl, prettier, and goreleaser.

OC lets you take money (one time and subscriptions, plus some other options) from anyone and disburse that money for project expenses (such as your own development time, as in this example from prettier). It also has guidance for connecting your collective to GitHub Sponsors.

The application process is reasonably straightforward and I believe hugo-book meets all of the requirements. The Open Source fiscal host also publishes a useful Terms of Sponsorship document which includes (relatively) plain English explanations of each term.

I've set up (but done little with, so far) a collective for an indie publishing co-op under a different fiscal host and eventually plan to do one for a couple of my open source projects in the future (assuming they pan out 😅) and am happy to help you with this however I can!