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Alanna Irving

2022 in Review: Open Collective Foundation

2022 in Review: Open Collective Foundation

What an incredible year 2022 was for Open Collective Foundation—an indication of the surge of energy, ideas, and resources flowing into solidarity movements. We are humbled and happy to provide a legal and financial toolbox the groups who make up these movements need to do their important and diverse

How OCF Developed a New Compensation Model (part 2)

How OCF Developed a New Compensation Model (part 2)

Open Collective Foundation is one of many Solidarity Economy organizations exploring collective pay-setting. We are sharing the behind the scenes details of how we came up the new collectively-created compensation model that we announced in part one. Open Collective Foundation serves a community of over 400 Collectives that each have

How the team sets its own salaries at OCF (part 1)

How the team sets its own salaries at OCF (part 1)

Distributed leadership aligns with our guiding principle of solidarity at Open Collective Foundation, and it’s an area we’ve been intentionally developing. In mid-2022, we started rethinking how we pay our core team. We asked ourselves: how might our salaries be determined equitably and collectively? Inspired by Worker Self-Directed

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 and growing our team, Open Collective Foundation committed to a strategy based on solidarity as our guiding principle, and published a strategic plan. Now, we're excited to share this

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

Occupy to Operations

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.

How Money Flows through Open Collective

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: Simplified Interactive graph → [https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7303468/] Money Flows:

OCF's Strategic Plan: Solidarity in Action

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 happens when you donate to Morevna Project?

What happens when you donate to Morevna Project?

Transparently trace a $500 contribution through Open Collective The mission of Morevna Project [https://opencollective.com/morevnaproject] 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

Helping Open-Source Contributors Escape Afghanistan

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

Making funding happen for Happen Films

Making funding happen for Happen Films

Using the medium of movies to showcase inspiring solutions to the wicked problems of our times. Happen Films [https://happenfilms.com/] believes the solutions are out there, and that people are already pioneering the transition we need in society. They find and share these stories to inspire others to make

Ten ways to make decisions about money

Ten ways to make decisions about money

Open Collective is home to thousands of collaborative communities raising and spending funds transparently, giving us a front-row seat to observe many diverse examples. Each group is different, and one size does not fit all. But we can say that understanding different options and consciously choosing between them makes for

Open Collective's impossible team away day

Open Collective's impossible team away day

Article excerpt from Zooming Beyond Time and Space [https://alannairving.medium.com/zooming-beyond-time-and-space-ac477f2f921], by team member Alanna Irving. My team at Open Collective [http://opencollective.com/] is 13 people across Brazil, Mexico, United States, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, India, and New Zealand. We’ve been fully remote for

The impact of Airbnb's support for open source

The impact of Airbnb's support for open source

Airbnb has long appeared on our top open source sponsors leaderboard, but this year they are taking it to the next level. More than just numbers, hearing from maintainers in their own words about how financial support has helped their projects thrive really drives home the impact open source sponsorship

Charity Fundholding for NZ: Gift Collective

Charity Fundholding for NZ: Gift Collective

We need accessible, affordable, effective fundholding for charitable initiatives, which powers them up instead of weighing them down.

Open Source Collective News—Nov 2020

Open Source Collective News—Nov 2020

Holding trademarks, legal terms update, & ecosystem initiatives OSC is fiscal host to over 2,250 open source projects on Open Collective. Holding project assets and trademarks Open Source Collective now has the ability to hold trademarks and other non-monetary assets for open source projects. If you are interested in

Amidst the election, a new network map analyzes politicians' tweets

Amidst the election, a new network map analyzes politicians' tweets

This open-source anti-'infodemic' tool can tell you who Trump interacts with and who has influence on politicians online. "The 'infodemic' we are experiencing now works in many ways like a pandemic," says SMAT co-creator Emmi Bevensee. The Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT) was

Open Source Collective Update #11

Open Source Collective Update #11

From our August and October 2020 board meetings. The Open Source Collective [https://blog.opencollective.com/open-source-collective-update-10/oscollective.org] is a non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 2,200 open source projects on Open Collective. We believe in transparency, so we’re publishing regular recaps of what

Launching Open Collective New Zealand

Launching Open Collective New Zealand

For kiwi projects and communities who want to raise money. Open Collective has already helped thousands of groups around the world raise and manage millions of dollars—now through Open Collective NZ, kiwis can too!

Open Source Collective Update #10

Open Source Collective Update #10

From our June board meeting The Open Source Collective [oscollective.org] is a non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 2,000 open source projects on Open Collective. We believe in transparency, so we’re publishing regular recaps of what happens in our board meetings. Recent Financials May-June

$2m for COVID-19: Stories of Solidarity

$2m for COVID-19: Stories of Solidarity

Over the last few months, we've been privileged to support a massive community response to COVID-19 by 250+ Collectives [https://opencollective.com/search?q=covid&offset=0]. We waived our fees [https://blog.opencollective.com/wearenotealone/] for three months so these amazing groups could focus all their

Open Source Collective Update #9

Open Source Collective Update #9

From our March and May 2020 board meetings The Open Source Collective is a non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 1,900 open source projects on Open Collective. We believe in transparency, so we’re publishing regular recaps of what happens in our board meetings. Recent Financials

Open Source Collective Update #8

Open Source Collective Update #8

From our January 2020 board meeting The Open Source Collective [https://oscollective.org/] is a non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 1,700 open source projects on Open Collective. We believe in transparency, so we’re publishing regular recaps of what happens in our board meetings. 2019

Open Source Collective News—Jan 2020

Open Source Collective News—Jan 2020

We're in Brussels for Sustain & FOSDEM, win $10k for your project, accept bitcoin + more news Join us in Brussels! We hope to see you at Sustain Summit [https://sustainoss.org/summit-2020/] and FOSDEM [https://fosdem.org/2020/] next week! Win $10,000 for your open source project