Ancestors

Written by Alexis Simon on 2024-12-06 at 11:18

I am launching a broad call for finding an ecology and/or evolution society that could take ecoevo.social under its wings.

While I am very happy to continue managing the technical and community aspect of this server, I do not have the bandwidth to start looking into taxes and non-profit creation issues.

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Written by Alexis Simon on 2024-12-06 at 11:18

The best course of action would be that an established society becomes the fiscal host for the server (meaning receiving donations and paying the bills with those donations, not complex when you're already a non-profit).

So please, if you are or know people in one of the many societies that are established on and using ecoevo.social, help me make a case for it!

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Written by Alexis Simon on 2024-12-06 at 11:19

Other less ideal options:

• Find a group of people that are ready to tackle establishing a non-profit for ecoevo.social.

• Find a benevolent person that would accept taking the fiscal host responsibility.

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Written by Alexis Simon on 2024-12-06 at 11:40

Other option: use a generic fiscal host such as provided by opencollective but they take percentages and I'd find it much more nicer for a society to give a hand

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Descendants

Written by Nemo_bis 🌈 on 2024-12-06 at 11:48

@alxsim Great that you're thinking about those things!

On "but they take percentages and I'd find it much more nicer for a society to give a hand", administrative overhead still exists with any fiscal hosts, it may just become more hidden. If unstated expectations differ, there may be surprising results down the road (such as a decision to shut down the service if perceived costs raise above perceived benefits).

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Written by Nemo_bis 🌈 on 2024-12-06 at 12:07

@alxsim There might be some useful examples (or not) in my list https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Collectively-owned-instances .

Looking at biology journals in DOAJ, I don't see many open-membership associations... Perhaps

• https://doaj.org/toc/2469-0228
• https://doaj.org/toc/2427-6111
• https://doaj.org/toc/2179-975X
• https://doaj.org/toc/1667-782X

of which only https://www.asaeargentina.com.ar/como-asociarse seems to have a procedure for membership from outside their host country.

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Written by Alexis Simon on 2024-12-06 at 14:09

@nemobis similar comment to which I respond here https://ecoevo.social/@alxsim/113606269005879452

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Written by Russell Neches on 2024-12-09 at 07:18

@alxsim How about a university department or student organization?

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Written by Alexis Simon on 2024-12-09 at 09:26

@ryneches student organization could be nice, although I might be worried a little bit about stability, as those have usually a high turnover.

A university department would be great if one would commit to support the server long term. But I have no idea how donations would work in that context honestly.

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