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I work with a non-profit that supports open source software tools, and we are working on developing a concept of a membership-based organization for supporting those tools. The basic idea is that people could donate $x per month towards a central pool and could then vote on how to spend that money with their vote weight being determined by their total amount of donations over time. We've had a number of people express interest in participating.

I'm aware of DAOs as a concept, but since most people will want to donate with fiat currency, I think they will create more of a headache than a help for this particular situation.

What we need is a software for tracking our list of active members and how many donations they've made over time. What software(s) would you suggest to do this? I know this could be done in Google sheets, LibreOffice, or Airtable or something similar, but I'm hoping there is something more closely tailored to what we're doing and if possible OSS.

We have several things we need to do. In an ideal world one software or platform would do it all but I'm guessing we'll have to use multiple tools:

  • Maintain a list of all members and how much they have donated over time to get their vote weight.
  • Assign vote weight to members based on their total donations over time (or a specific number we put into this tool) and invite them to vote on things with web link that collects their vote and maybe shows them results. It would be really nice if we could have something where we could create multiple things to be voted on, adjust our vote weights on each poll, and then invite all the members to vote in one click.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to suggest OpenCollective but I'm not sure if they have any type of voting mechanism. It does provide financial transparency though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah OpenCollective is really cool. I'm kinda surprised they don't support some kind of contributor voting. We may end up using them anyways just for the simplifying the finance side