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Open Source Collective Updates we love - June Edition ❤️

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Fundraise Fast with No Borders: Stories of Support for Ukraine

Fundraise Fast with No Borders: Stories of Support for Ukraine

Disaster fundraising calls for immediate action, with no time to set up a nonprofit or do paperwork. Open Collective helps passionate activists in situations that require quick responses. Whether a natural disaster or a war crisis, communities need accessible and transparent tools for efficient cooperation, especially when it comes to

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Ecosyste.ms — Identify, Secure, and Sustain Critical, Open Source Components

Open Source Collective is building shared infrastructure for a growing community of researchers, policymakers, developers, and funders seeking to identify, secure, and sustain critical open source components.

Building the team to deliver on Open Source Collective's Strategy

Building the team to deliver on Open Source Collective's Strategy

In January Open Source Collective, the foundation and fiscal host for over 3,000 open source communities [https://opencollective.com/opensource#contributions], published its strategy [https://blog.opencollective.com/open-source-collectives-strategy-2022-2025/]. The strategy outlined a vision for the organisation: > We are actively working toward a world in which it is as

Проект 1К: допомога Україні «Peer-to-Peer» («Рівний-рівному»)

Проект 1К: допомога Україні «Peer-to-Peer» («Рівний-рівному»)

Проект 1K зібрав [https://www.1kproject.org/] 5,4 мільйона доларів на безпосередню допомогу понад 5000 родинам, які постраждали від війни. Ми провели щиру розмову з українсько-американським засновником проєкту Алексом Іскольдом. Алекс Іскольд – один із тих, хто живе в стилі «американська мрія». Зараз він працює в Нью-Йорку; та народився Алекс

1K Project: Peer-to-peer help for Ukraine

1K Project: Peer-to-peer help for Ukraine

1K Project [http://1kproject.org] has raised $5.4 million for direct relief to 5,000+ families affected by the war. In this heartfelt conversation, we speak with Ukrainian-American founder Alex Iskold. Alex Iskold is living the American dream. Now in New York, he was born in the Ukrainian city

Investor Update 2021-2022

Investor Update 2021-2022

We sent this update to investors in February 2022, we just noticed that we forgot to post it here so we sharing for transparency now! Dear investors, I trust you are all well and staying healthy. It’s that exciting time of the year again when I reach out with

Open Collective Europe: A new approach for the digital commons

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Open Collective Europe: A new approach for the digital commons

Open Collective Europe has set out to achieve the sustainability of the social and solidarity economy as well as open source technologies. Our mission is to enable initiatives to raise and spend money transparently under a common umbrella nonprofit. At the beginning of 2022, we shared [https://opencollective.com/europe/

OCF Strategic Plan Check-in

OCF Strategic Plan Check-in

Six months later, here's what we've achieved and learned. After clarifying our mission & values [https://docs.opencollective.foundation/about/mission-and-values] and growing our team [https://docs.opencollective.foundation/about/team], Open Collective Foundation committed to a strategy based on solidarity as our guiding principle [https://blog.opencollective.com/solidarity-as-our-guiding-principle/], and

Google Season of Docs 2022!

Google Season of Docs 2022!

Do you help maintain an open-source project? Apply [ https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs] to have your project’s documentation funded! Work with professional technical writers and help advance understanding of best practices in open source documentation. Poor and insufficient documentation is a leading issue in the Open Source community. Most

Can you combine Patreon and Open Collective? You bet!

Can you combine Patreon and Open Collective? You bet!

Why Future Diaries started a Patreon page—and you should too! Future Diaries [https://futurediaries.show/] is a dramatised speculative fiction podcast. Each episode features a diary entry from an alternative fictional universe, followed by an interview with the main character of the story. The show aims to highlight a

Deep dive: community stewardship of Open Collective through a Perpetual Purpose Trust

Deep dive: community stewardship of Open Collective through a Perpetual Purpose Trust

Stay up to date on our journey here [http://opencollective.com/e2c]. Many thanks to Purpose [https://www.purpose-us.com/] for their invaluable resources on this subject. In a recent post [https://blog.opencollective.com/exit-to-community-part-2/] on Open Collective’s dream of an “exit to community [http://opencollective.com/e2c]

Building Capacity for Exit to Community

Divya Siddarth, who is creating a series of case studies in collaboration with E2C.how [https://e2c.how/], interviewed Open Collective COO Alanna Irving about the company's journey toward being owned and governed by its community. Watch the video or read the transcript below. Why did it make sense for

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Payments to folks in Russia and Ukraine

As we watch the Ukrainian resistance to invasion by Russian forces we are doing all we can to continue to support the individuals and communities that are suffering on both sides of the border. As a platform for people to support one another, it is devastating to see the world

Open Source Collective is Hiring!

Open Source Collective is Hiring!

Seeking a Senior Operations Manager, Product Manager and Software Developer. Open Source Collective [https://oscollective.org] (OSC) is a non-profit fiscal sponsor for over 3,000 open source projects [https://opencollective.com/opensource], which helped them raise $12m in 2021 [https://blog.opencollective.com/12m-for-open-source/]. OSC's mission is to create

Tauiwi Tautoko: Countering Racism with Listening

Tauiwi Tautoko: Countering Racism with Listening

A kiwi course teaching evidence-backed techniques to detox our discourse Do you think that arguing with racists on the internet is like screaming into the void, but not speaking up also seems wrong? Do you wish you could engage with racist family members or acquaintances without either screaming or biting

OCF Announces Artist-Organizer Fellows and new hire: Communications Organizer

OCF Announces Artist-Organizer Fellows and new hire: Communications Organizer

At Open Collective Foundation, solidarity is our guiding principle. We have taken the last year to begin weaving a mycelial web of relationships to intentionally connect the collectives we host—mutual aid, open source, climate justice, and more—to the broader Solidarity Economy movement. Why? Because, we are stronger together!

Open Collective Foundation: 2021 in Review

Open Collective Foundation: 2021 in Review

In 2021, over 13,100 unique donors financially contributed to hundreds of initiatives hosted by OCF, from mutual aid to climate action to tech for good. We are very proud of the amazing things our community has accomplished! The real story is all of your stories. OCF Updates We Love—

Open Source Collective's Strategy 2022-2025

In this post we outline the strategy for Open Source Collective, our five-year-old host organisation that now supports over 3,000 projects and their communities.