News Open Collective Update—January 2020 Top contributors of 2019, goals for 2020, Conversations are live, + more news2019 in Review and 2020 GoalsUpdate from CEO Pia Mancini about our journey in 2019 and our strategy for the coming year,
News 2019 in Review and 2020 Goals The year 2019 was a good one for Open Collective in many ways, and the challenges ahead are making the team more focused and stronger together. TL;DR:Our income grew 2.4x
News Open Source Collective Update #7 From our December 2019 board meetingThe Open Source Collective is a non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 1,600 open source projects on Open Collective. We believe in transparency, so
News Open Collective Update—December 2019 Lots of new features, seeking feedback, free pizza + we're hiring!Feedback Wanted: New Expense FlowExpenses are how Collectives pay money out to contributors. We're working on a big update to make the whole
case studies Growing Community One Slice at a Time Over the last couple years, Cloudflare has sponsored over $20,000 of pizza for 80+ tech meetups around the world, reaching over 4500 people. That’s a lot of slices!
News How did Open Collective's docs change in three months? This is my last week as a Google Season of Docs technical writer and, let me tell you, working with Open Collective was a delightful experience! In the last three months, I got
News Open Source Collective News—Nov 2019 New Funding OptionsGithubA new feature enables funding directly through a Sponsor button on project repos and payment through Github to your Collective. To activate it, you need an entity and a bank account
News Open Collective Update—November 2019 Platform improvements, upcoming developments, recognizing contributors, ZEIT sponsor profile, and more news.Platform ImprovementsProfile picker When you add a new Core Contributor or select a Collective or Organization, now you can search existing
Open Source Beyond post-install messages: npm adds support for package funding Open Collective previously promoted the use of postinstall messages, output in the developer terminal each time someone installed a package. This practice proved controversial, and in September we stopped encouraging it. We've let
case studies How funding open source gives ZEIT access to world-class talent Interview with ZEIT founder Guillermo Rauch and Head of Growth Sarup Banskota.
News Open Source Collective Update #6 From our October 2019 board meeting.The Open Source Collective is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 1,500 open source projects on Open Collective. We
News Alyssa Wright joins Open Source Collective Welcome to the team! Alyssa's skills in business development, marketing, strategy, fundraising, and partnerships will help Collectives thrive and create a more sustainable open source ecosystem. We are thrilled to have her with
News Open Collective Update—October 2019 Collectives for the climate, doubling bounties, diversity in Drupal, and more news.Last weekend, the Extinction Rebellion Belgium Collective organized civil disobedience in Brussels to draw attention to the climate emergency. Over 400
News Scaling up our Bounty Program At our team retreat six months ago, we decided to test out a Bounty program. We were inspired by Collectives on our platform who are successfully using bounties to support more contributions from
News 🚀 Time for a change! New Collective & Profile Pages We've made a big design upgrade! Now is a great time to update your Collective and share it with your community. See what's new! For specifics please head to our docs. ⭐ Customize it!
case studies Taking on Diversity & Inclusion in the Drupal Community We spoke with Drupal Diversity and Inclusion team leader Tara King about how her team are going beyond the depressing statistics and achieving real change.
News Open Collective Update—September 2019 Launching: New Collective PageA big update to the design of Collective pages is going live in the next few days (and Individual and Organization profiles too)! To preview the new look, append "V2"
case studies Frontend Masters: "We teach open source, we use open source, and we support open source." Frontend Masters regularly appears on our leaderboard for their contributions to the open source ecosystem. They’ve sponsored nearly 40 projects and show no signs of slowing down. I spoke to founder Marc Grabanski to find out why.
climate Open Collective will go on Strike Friday Sep 20th for the Climate 🌍🔥⏳ TLDR;Our homepage will be “greened out” on Sep 20thYou can opt in to make your collective page go on strike as well (see below)There will be a banner across the entire
how-to Make anonymous donations on Open Collective Sometimes, you just don’t want to publicly say that you are supporting a collective.Let’s say that you made a lot of money in the fossil fuel industry. It was a
Open Source Indeed's Open Source Sustainability Strategy During the last SustainOSS in London, Duane O'Brien let slip a comment that made me super happy, Indeed was piloting a FOSS Sustainability Fund. A way to institutionalize corporate open source support, and
News Open Collective Update—August 2019 New 2 min explainer video, anonymous contributions, + new blog, website, and team members. Check out our sweet new animated explainer video!Anonymous ContributionsYou can now select the “incognito” profile in the contribution flow
News Welcome new team members! We are stoked to welcome a couple of awesome new humans onto the Open Collective team.
