LFGSS Collective

• Actually setting up an Open Collective = not hard.
  
• Doing a donation drive = not hard.
  
• Paying bills, you need someone to pay the bills, someone willing to have a £1k slush fund in a Wise account... and that person would be reimbursed when they file receipts = moderately hard as it's a PITA chore and someone needs enough spare cash to cover the bills and be willing for their name to be public.
  
  

Open Collective is not a bank account, and is best used as a fund raising and transparency platform, that collects the money (the hard part) and then reimburses the money.

None of this is hard... the hardest bit is identifying who is going to handle paying the bills and filing the invoices and being reimbursed.

But you can't reasonably do this stuff before you know you're going to run the site after 16th March.