Investigate open collective as an option for managing funds for sub collectives e.g. art, research etc

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Investigate open collective as an option for managing funds for subgroups e.g. art

Tasks

Initial research

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1. Do some initial research 🚧2025-01-06 see below
2. Signup and create and organization to investigate **🚧2025-01-06 Rufus has existing account. ⛔2025-01-06 turns out we have existing org on there so can't create one https://opencollective.com/life-itself. However don't have access. see next item. ✅2025-01-08 created the organization https://opencollective.com/life-itself
3. Get access to existing life itself account on open collective and figure out what it is. 💬2025-01-07 pinged theo. theo says he doesn't remember anything about it. ✅2025-01-08 FIXED. it is ops email ... Renamed life-itself user account to life-itself-user so we can create org
4. Set up as fiscal host https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/become-a-fiscal-host ✅2025-01-08
5. Set up a subcollective for e.g. art, research

Research

Notes 2025-01-06

• Looks like you can easily become a fiscal host and you don't need to be 501 3(c) etc https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/become-a-fiscal-host
• Then you can host as many collectives as you want under you ...

Questions

• Do we need to use Open Collectives bank account or can we use our own? ✅2025-01-06 Yes we can use our own - see https://docs.opencollective.com/help/independent-collectives/about-independent-collectives
• How to create a fiscal host https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/create-a-fiscal-host
• Does it work to have a bank account associated that does things other than just the collectives (e.g. can we use our general bank account and only have some things for the collectives)?