Roles about opencollective HOT 7 CLOSED

We had a chat w @xdamman about this offline and we came up with this three categories/names

• Contributors: people who do work
• Backers: people who give money
• Friends: people who are happy with staying on the loop, still haven't decided to commit. (this is a free category)

We played with the idea (for the foundation) to give members voting power based on if they work, if they back and if they bring others to the platform. A liquid democracy mechanism can be put in place, where new members are by default delegating on the person who brought them to the platform. So, even if they still don't have voting rights, they can through their weight behind the person they trust. It's not something to do now, but in order to do this in the future, we should start tracking now somehow how people bring other people to the collectives.

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Hosts should automatically be contributors.

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Hello @xdamman and @piamancini, I think I've found some issues around roles so I'm posting them here. If you want me to post in another issue then feel free to direct me to do so.

Each human being should only need one login to OpenCollective. So, no matter what role I have it can all be contained in one login/profile.

AFAIK so far where this breaks is for the host role. And there are a number of reasons why sharing login details is bad for traceability if you have multiple people authorising payments. So the host role should be added to a human login/profile and not need a separate login itself.

I really like the user model used by DigitalOcean or GitHub where a user creates a team or organisation and then invites other users into them and assigns permissions. I reckon this is how OpenCollective should work too.

Yeah?

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@dahacouk totally agree. I'm currently working on refactoring a bunch of that stuff. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for your input.

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Ah @xdamman great stuff! If you have a model/plan document that you are working from I'd gladly take a look at it and comment. Cheers!

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Related: Would be rad if OC could be open and unopinionated enough to allow folks to sync with the all-contributors spec :)
https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/web-monitoring-db#contributors

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V2 has admins (core contributors) and contributors. A host can have several admins.
Organizations have members and can make contributions as organizations.
Closing this. @dahacouk if you find v2 is not solving your issue. Feel free to create a new one accordingly.

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