One thing I would like to see us do is make some sort of donation to the Mastodon dev team. It looks like they primarily use patreon, so I'm not sure how that would interface with Patreon, but I'd imagine there are other vectors that could be used for a one-time contribution.

Longer term, I do think it would be good to contribute some % of our revenue to the core devs as appreciation/support for the further development of the infrastructure that we use, though to do so effectively it would be helpful if OpenCollective made it easier to generate reports vs. having to download and wrestle with a massive csv file.

Also, @mayel, what's our current monthly hosting expense?

Thanks for getting this moving. I would envision something along these lines:
* A regular budget supporting maintenance labor (maybe retainer-payroll-based)
* A regular budget supporting development of new tools (maybe according to some kind of non-exploitative bounty system)
* Regular contributions to Mastodon and perhaps aiming toward the full pay-rate for Loomio.

I think were we to plan based on $150/month for, say, the next six months, that would be conservative enough to let us keep building our reserve while also doing some meaningful things. Right now our monthly outlay is $36.10 for hosting, domain and Loomio. To your points:
- I think the regular contributions to Mastodon would be good, but the two barriers are (A) the labor intensiveness of figuring out our monthly take from OC if we wanted to do a % of that, and (B) the question of how to do the regular contributions. Would (and could?) we set up a social.coop librapay account? Or would Gargamel need to go to OC each month to "invoice" us? In the meantime I'd like to advance a proposal to make a one-off contribution that would be enough to get us sponsor space on the joinmastodon.org website for a few months.
- Bumping up to regular $19/mo Loomio pricing seems reasonable. If we're bringing in a couple hundred a month, it feels like we're on the borderline of a shoestring community group and a solidly established project.
- For maintenance labor, I feel like we still need to have a conversation vis a vis exactly how to structure such a thing. It seems like the simplest approach that would work under our opencollective framework would be to contract with someone-as-freelancer/contractor to do a list of tasks along the lines of updating to newest version within 7 days of release, etc.
- For "new tools," do you mean new Mastodon services? Or new social.coop service offerings.

So, perhaps a budget could look like:
- $19/mo - Loomio Gold^
- $7.10/mo - .coop domain^{^}
- $24/mo - hosting^{^}
- $40/mo - "Silver Sponsor" of Mastodon Dev Team
- $50/mo - Mastodon Tech Lead stipend

=$140/mo, though might bump up a bit if we need to scale the hosting further.

^Bumped from current $5/month

^Current expenses

@matthewcropp why a big one-time donation rather than just starting monthly donations?

I feel like the recurring needs to be part of a larger budget formulation conversation that should be scheduled soon. As we don't currently have a timetable for that, I would like to take a one-off action in the meantime.