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Open Source Collective Update #7

From our December 2019 board meeting The Open Source Collective [https://oscollective.org/] 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 we’re publishing regular recaps of what happens in our board meetings. Recent

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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!

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Open Source Collective News—Nov 2019

New Funding Options Github A 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 for your project—luckily, we already provide that as your fiscal sponsor! We're

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How funding open source gives Vercel access to world-class talent

Interview with Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch and Head of Growth Sarup Banskota.

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Open Source Collective Update #6

From our October 2019 board meeting. The Open Source Collective [https://oscollective.org/] is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization serving as a fiscal sponsor to over 1,500 open source projects on Open Collective. We believe in transparency, so we’re publishing regular recaps of what happens in our

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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 us. Alyssa is an experienced leader of open source business and community development. She works

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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.

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Open Source Collective Update #5

From our September 2019 board meeting.

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Open Source Collective News Sept 2019

We're hiring! Plus more news from OSC.

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Open Source Collective Update #4

From our August 2019 board meeting.

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Solving open source funding by giving sponsors a seat at the table

How creating a Steering Group became the game-changer for Universal Viewer, propelling this long-running project into a whole new phase.

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News and Opportunities from the Open Source Collective

As fiscal host to 1300+ open source projects on Open Collective, we’re on a mission to help the whole ecosystem thrive.

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Open Collective Update—July 2019

Preview of Collective page redesign, join an open source support group, OSC opening up, Witchcraft interview, and more.

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The Open Source Collective’s widening umbrella

Now accepting even more projects who are building the open source ecosystem worldwide

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Open Source Collective Update #3

From our June 2019 board meeting

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Witchcraft: the magic of math, functional programming, and community

Interview with Brooklyn Zelenka, blockchain engineer, functional programming math wizard, community builder, and founder of Fission and…

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Open Collective Update — June 2019

Thoughts on Github Sponsors, Babel case study, funding via ethical ads, new Zapier integration, open source in Africa

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Our Season of Docs FAQ

We have been lucky enough to be contacted with many inquiries about our participation in the Google Season of Docs program. Several…

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Open Collective Update—May 2019

What core contributors want, Berlin event, new stuff for fiscal hosts

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Babel’s rise to financial sustainability

Making a living making open source

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Open Source Collective Update #2

From our May 2019 board meeting

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What Core Contributors Want

Results from our survey of open source maintainers

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Enriching commons by practicing with money

For the Secure Scuttlebutt community, it involves money but it’s not about money

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Open Collective Update — April 2019

Which open source projects do you want to support?

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Join us for Google Season of Docs!

Google Season of Docs is a program giving technical writers an opportunity to contribute to open source projects, by paying them a three…