[Radio Station] Create tiers, perks, and goals for the Radio Station collective

[gusaus]

With https://opencollective.com/radio-station now active (nice job grabbing that url!) we should figure out the tiers, perks, and goals. Looking over the first pass, I'm thinking

• we should save goals for specific campaigns or feature requests
• not sure Open Collective is the best place to list a T-shirt or other merch as a perk... maybe we should hold off for now...

The tiers/levels on https://www.patreon.com/radiostation seem closer to what we'd want to set up on the collective. Possibly we can recreate and flesh out the copy/perks a bit more?

Possibly we should draft on a Google doc since there's no way to do that on the collective?

[gusaus]

@tonyzeoli Maybe we should use https://obsproject.com/contribute as a model -

Use the Open Collective for supporting stations and sponsorships

• College
• Community
• Commercial
• Sponsor
• etc

Use the Patron for individual supporters

• look at the membership levels/perks for OBS for inspiration https://www.patreon.com/obsproject

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[gusaus]

@tonyzeoli With regards again to the development of add-ons or new features, we can create all or nothing fundraising campaigns.

• AzuraCast / Radio Station plugin integration https://github.com/Netmix/openproducer-platform/issues/19
• LibreTime / Radio Station plugin integration https://github.com/Netmix/openproducer-platform/issues/18

Think it would be best to include any post-development cost (maintenance, support, etc.) in our overall funding goals - i.e. how much $$ & what resources do we need to support Radio station + add-ons as a whole (this issue is related https://github.com/OpenProducer/internal/issues/7).

We can then identify all revenue streams (donations, sponsorship, % of paid products &services, etc) needed to cover that cost.

OBS, referenced above #15 (comment), again provides a model we could follow.

[gusaus]

Copying the on-topic chat from Open Collective Slack to better track and move forward -

on the fundraising front, you know we've joined OpenCollective. What I'd like to focus on is outreach to all major radio broadcast networks to understand if they have funds to dedicate to open source development. i would then push those contacts into our OpenCollective environment specifically for corporate fundraising and make sure not to confuse that with our Patreon individual station supporters.

@tonyzeoli Seems like what you're saying aligns with the OBS model I referenced and described above #15 (comment)

Think something like that could work for Radio Station?

[gusaus]

@tonyzeoli Check the last bit of convo in #openproducer (Open Collective Slack) when you can. I think we should draft something out in a Google doc and then ask for tips and feedback in that channel.

[gusaus]

Circling back to this issue as I'm noticing there's a 'project' set up for Radio Station on the collective page -
https://opencollective.com/radio-station/projects/radio-station-plugin

As mentioned in https://github.com/OpenProducer/internal/issues/7 I think could use the main collective page to sustain Radio Station ongoing and use 'projects' for specific features or campaigns.

OBS again provides some good examples for tiers/goals as well as projects -
https://opencollective.com/obsproject
https://opencollective.com/obsproject/projects/obs-project-bounty-program

If you think we could make better use of the Radio Station collective, I'd be happy to create and share a Google doc so we can draft something.

[gusaus]

A couple of other things to do or evaluate after talking with @tonyzeoli this week.

First off, we were talking about Patreon vs. Open Collective as the goto platform for 'stations and other groups/orgs to donate'. As mentioned in #15 (comment), what if we sent individuals to Patreon?

A couple things that @tonyzeoli pointed out were things that we'd need to review with @majick777

• can we link a Open Collective donation to a Featured spot in the Netmix directory via their API https://docs.opencollective.com/help/contributing/development/api
• Patreon offers an SSO sign on plugin that logs the user into Netmix.com - not sure if Open Collective offers something similar.

A couple other benefits/perks for stations/other groups if we centralized on Open Collective

• they can pay/donate with Stocks (https://blog.opencollective.com/use-your-stock-for-good/) and Crypto (https://blog.opencollective.com/support-open-source-software-using-crypto/)
• they can contribute to a general fund (i.e. the main collective) or specific projects, features, or initiatives (using the projects feature); check out these examples -
  • https://opencollective.com/obsproject/projects/obs-project-bounty-program
  • https://contribute.mautic.org/product-team/request-for-proposals-rfp-process
  • https://blog.opencollective.com/morevna-project/
• they can donate without having to go to Open Collective (via the new embed feature https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/embed-contribution-flow)
• we can automatically display sponsor logos on the Github readme and any site (via the new embed feature)
• we can 'eventually' use the FundOSS platform to run our own fundraiser(s); think we could do some creative things with stations in terms of perks and how we can promote sponsors

All in all, it would be good to make better use of https://opencollective.com/radio-station as a way to sustain the project and the team!