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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.

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$12,000,000 received on behalf of open source projects in 2021

In 2021 Open Source Collective received more financial support for open source projects than all previous years combined, over 12 million dollars. Here’s what we’re doing to continue that trend…

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Igalia's Open Prioritization Project: Advancing the Web Commons for All

The goal is nothing less than the democratization of the web’s futureAt Igalia, we believe very strongly in the open web and its advancement. One of the barriers we see to moving forward is that adding new features to web browsers has always been dependent on the resources of

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Open Collective Update - December 2021

"This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything"OMG we're on TV! 🙀 On PBS on the Laura Flanders Show, with an episode that features Open Collective. "Why must new and innovative ideas come to market through old and undemocratic platforms? What if rather than selling out, successful businesses became community

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Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community”

(Stay up to date on our journey here.) How might we free Open Collective for the commons? Part 2 of … The not-so-secret dream of our strange beast called Open Collective is to be infrastructure for the commons, owned by our community, which I talked about in part one. Open Collective

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OCF is HIRING a social media + Communications Organizer

Open Collective Foundation (OCF) is looking to hire a Communications Organizer to work 3 hours a day at $30/hr ($24k/year part time) to amplify our collectives' work.

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Open Collective Update - November 2021

Exit to CommunityIn the future, Open Collective wants to transfer ownership of the platform to our community. We're working toward that, and we want to take you all with us on the learning journey—transparently (of course!). CEO Pia Mancini invites you to... Early musings on “Exit to Community” for

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News for Fiscal Hosts

Fiscal Hosts are the entities that hold funds for Collectives behind the scenes—the platform power users! We've got some news and features to share with you. Exit to CommunityWe have announced our plans to transition ownership and governance of the Open Collective platform to its community, and we think

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Govern your Collective with Metagov Gateway

The Metagov Gateway helps communities govern themselves by connecting decision-making tools and governance services to platforms where decisions need to be made. Over the past couple months, we’ve been working with Open Collective communities who are using the Gateway to improve their governance. One Open Collective community, Bhumisparsha, was

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OCF Updates We Love — Autumn 2021

Check out these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation:🌟 Rogers Parks Free Store has distributed over 14,000 necessary items within their community in Chicago. 🌟 Study-into-Action shares their next steps following the completion of their cohort to progress the solidarity economy movement. View all the recordings here.

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Occupy to Operations

How Occupy still resonates a decade later, entrepreneurship for systemic change, rethinking fiscal sponsorship and financial tooling, and discovering yourself through burnout and finding balance.

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Improving Equity in Sustainable Access to Medical Treatments

Identifing solutions to key barriers in different global contexts and across sectors.

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Early musings on "Exit to Community" for Open Collective

How can we future-proof Open Collective Inc. for the thousands of communities around the world that rely on it?

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Open Collective Update—October 2021

New ways to payCryptocurrency is now enabled for Open Source Collective, and we hope to offer them more widely soon. If your Collective is with OSC, go to settings > tiers and tick "Enable Crypto contributions" to opt in. Recurring PayPal is live (previously only for one-time contributions)—a small

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How Money Flows through Open Collective

Two interactive graphs with explainer videos, one simplified and one in-depth. Thanks to the platform's financial transparency, you can trace exactly what happens to each dollar, and these can explainers show how it all works. Money Flows: SimplifiedInteractive graph → Money Flows: In-DepthInteractive graph →

Hacktoberfest Evolves To Include Financial Contributions

This year Hacktoberfest is encouraging participants to support projects financially.

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Ersilia: How Open Collective is Redefining Open Organizations

Ersilia is a nonprofit organisation that supports research against infectious and neglected diseases. Our goal is to facilitate adoption of artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the development of new medicines. We focus on establishing collaborations in low-resourced settings where the costs of drug discovery are prohibitive.In the last 20

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You can now use Crypto to Support Open Source Software

Today we are adding limited support for cryptocurrencies on the Open Collective platform. Collectives hosted by Open Source Collective and Open Collective Foundation can now receive contributions in over 40 cryptocurrencies.

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OCF's Strategic Plan: Solidarity in Action

Here's what we're up to—we want your feedback!Not long ago, OCF announced our strategy focused on solidarity. Now we want to share a more concrete plan to put it into action. Here's a rundown of what the OCF team is currently doing, what we plan to get started

Pionir Free School Students outside in Serbia

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“Free Schools Are the Future of Education”

An interview with Marko Kazic, creator of Pionir Free School in Serbia which serves as a replicable model towards building an exponential culture.

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Use your Stock for Good

You can now use your public stock to support Open Source Creators on Open Stocks.

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What happens when you donate to Morevna Project?

Transparently trace a $500 contribution through Open CollectiveThe mission of Morevna Project is to develop, improve and popularize open-source technologies for animation. While all money flows are transparent on Open Collective, it's interesting to trace and explain the path it takes in a specific example. Morevna Project's recent blog post

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Open Collective Update—September 2021

New legal & display name settingsYou can now differentiate your public display name from your private legal name. Open Collective is a transparent platform, so profiles are public on the internet. We also deal with official stuff requiring real names, like receipts, payments, and tax forms. Up to now, this

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Helping Open-Source Contributors Escape Afghanistan

How the community came together to help families escape a war zone.The Persian proverb یکی برای همه و همه برای یکی means "Every one should sacrifice for the community, and the community should come together for the one". This has been exemplified over the last month, as the open

New mother comfortable with her post pregnancy body by Jacob Lund Photography from NounProject.com

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When Open Collective Met Okionu

Jacquelyn Clemmons of Okionu Birth Foundation wants to to normalize complete and holistic postpartum care through by supporting both parents with nourishing meals following the birth of a child.