LFGSS Collective

Other threads of conversation:

• Seth from Bike Index (US based) is offering to take the legal entity under their control.
  
• Pignole Fixe are considering a France based entity.
  
• The servers can be moved to Germany quite easily (closer to where the attachments are stored too).
  
• A privacy advocate has proposed a Swiss entity.
  
• Some lawyers/legal types on LFGSS have a DM thread and are considering the compliance side.
  
  

Missing from all conversations is the financial side.

The financial side is critical, it's very boring but it's critical... if you don't pay the bills then the servers get turned off, simple as that.

Something I had considered is OpenCollective, but the risk was that migrating PayPal subscriptions to a new system would too significantly reduce the income, and as it was not quite enough anyway I just didn't ever do this. I think if a collective is formed, if people fill all other roles, then the collective should assign a secretary and start afresh on OpenCollective. We limp month to month at the moment, so I'm confident we'll hit the end date with an empty bank account, a fresh fundraise based on the desire of people to keep the forum alive would likely enable this to be successful and finally get the forum to having several months money in the bank (because now other forums like Pignole will contribute a bit too).