Payments

[davehun]

Get some kind of mechanism for payments
e.g

https://squareup.com/gb

[carwyn]

Meetup.com has a lot of this built in including periodic membership dues and per event payment. It also has attendance tracking.

[tamslinn]

I'm not sure we could use the meetup member dues feature, as t doesn't look like you can make it optional, and we don't want to exclude people from being a meetup member.

They also have a voluntary "contributions" feature, but Contributions are currently only available for Meetup groups in the United States

Also: Each Contribution is subject to a transaction fee. WePay collects 2.8% + $0.30 of this service fee to process the payment and Meetup collects 4.7% + $0.20.

[davehun]

what about https://www.patreon.com/

[carwyn]

I like Patreon.

From a sustainability perspective effort contributions are often worth far more to the community. For example stewarding a 2 hour event is equivalent to £15 at living wage. Prep for workshops is significantly more. Meetup gathers stats on attendances and whether the attendance was as a host or organiser and when. These could be used fairly easily to derive voting eligibility.

[carwyn]

I think we should make it a pound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQpe7q03vA

[carwyn]

There's a pro version of meetup too that has useful things but it's expensive:

https://www.meetup.com/pro/

I think it's what CodeUP use.

[robshep]

I was wondering if you might have hacking event to make something we need, possibly based on blockchain?

[carwyn]

Ethereum smart contracts would be suitable. There's a PhD in the works at the Uni that relates to this and also an area I've been talking to Andy about for a while now.

This is related too: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04229

[carwyn]

Some others of note:

https://colony.io/
https://liberapay.com/
https://www.tipeee.com/

[carwyn]

This could be useful for covering expenses and transparency: https://opencollective.com/