Pia Mancini - Open Collective

Pia Mancini

The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit!

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The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit!

A group of fiscal hosts representing thousands of collectives have created a new independent, community-governed, non-profit organization and have reached an agreement with Open Collective Inc. to take over the Open Collective platform as it exists today.

Caroline Woolard moves from Open Collective to Art.coop

Caroline Woolard moves from Open Collective to Art.coop

CCO Caroline Woolard has announced that she is stepping down from the Executive team at Open Collective Inc. (OC) to focus on her work with Art.coop.

Open Collective Inc. Donates $10k to Iron Path Farms

Open Collective Inc. Donates $10k to Iron Path Farms

Why did Open Collective Inc. donate 10k to Iron Path Farms, a 2Spirit Haudenosaunee-led Food Sovereignty Project? We are an unconventional tech company striving to usher in a world where collectivity, transparency, and good livelihoods are the norm. We work to be an example of the world we want to

OC Inc. Strategy 2023-2024: Mature Platform + Connected Teams = Strong Foundations

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OC Inc. Strategy 2023-2024: Mature Platform + Connected Teams = Strong Foundations

The next two years are about maturing the OC Inc. platform and connecting our teams so that we can scale our impact in the years to come.

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

Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community”

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

Early musings on "Exit to Community" for Open Collective

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?

You can now use Crypto to Support Open Source Software

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.

Use your Stock for Good

Use your Stock for Good

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

Introducing: Funds for Open Source

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Introducing: Funds for Open Source

Helping companies invest in open source projects because we want open source creators to have a good livelihood and work sustainably, which is critical to the health of the whole ecosystem.

2020 in Review & 2021 Update

2020 in Review & 2021 Update

Open letter from CEO Pia Mancini to Open Collective's investors Wow, 2020 was one rollercoaster of a year. We are just now catching our breath! What really matters first: we have been humbled by the groups that came together on our platform and across our fiscal hosts to

Need some fresh air? Take your vote with you and #walkthevote!

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Need some fresh air? Take your vote with you and #walkthevote!

Need some fresh air? Take your vote with you and #walkthevote!

Need a 501(c)(3) for your initiative? We have you covered!

Need a 501(c)(3) for your initiative? We have you covered!

Open Collective [https://opencollective.com] and the Open Collective Foundation [https://opencollective.foundation] are launching a new path for charitable initiatives to start receiving tax deductible donations with no hassle. Open Collective + the Open Collective Foundation are on a mission to help charitable groups raise and disburse financial contributions in

Open Collective Investors Update August 2020

Investor Updates

Open Collective Investors Update August 2020

Dear Investors, Phew! What a rollercoaster of a year. I really don’t know where to start. As a quick recap, last time I wrote [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rQDUvRaFxwNO2swE7YNmkcOhM1lEeTV1P4aOGb6eBUA/edit] numbers were positive and we launched a new strategy we called Fiscal Sponsorship as a service to

A moderation proposal for Open Collective

A moderation proposal for Open Collective

Two weeks ago, we had one of those weekends… Twitter threads popping up everywhere about scammers and spammers on the platform. We got called out for a lack of moderation tools: tools that would allow our Collectives to have control over who contributes to them and interacts with them, tools

Zero Platform Fees for Charitable Collectives

Zero Platform Fees for Charitable Collectives

Open Collective is waiving its platform fees for charitable Collectives fiscally sponsored by Open Collective Foundation and other charity hosts. 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]

Open Collective Update!

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Open Collective Update!

New Expense Flow, Bank Transfers, No Fees for COVID and more!

We are apart, but we are not alone.

We are waiving our fees on all COVID-19 related Initiatives. Let's work together to support each other. The past week we've seen a surge of Collectives created in solidarity with COVID-19 support efforts. At Open Collective, we are humbled both by the number of volunteers fighting

Double the Love! 💞

Double the Love! 💞

GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective team up for sustainability! We are thrilled to share that GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective are linking up to help open source projects thrive. Open source projects can now use Open Collective to receive and manage funds as an organization through GitHub Sponsors. Open Collective’

New Paid Plans for Fiscal Hosts

New Paid Plans for Fiscal Hosts

We are launching updated features for Fiscal Hosts on Open Collective, with a new pricing plan. Fiscal Hosts are the entities behind the scenes who make it possible for Collectives to receive and spend money, these changes apply to them. The Story So Far We started Open Collective with a

2019 in Review and 2020 Goals

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 from $84k to $204k in 2019. * We have +16 months of runway ($825k in the bank, avg.

Beyond post-install messages: npm adds support for package funding

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 [https://github.com/opencollective/opencollective/issues/2391]. We've let package maintainers use their best judgement to stop

Indeed's Open Source Sustainability Strategy

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 [https://indeed.com]was piloting a FOSS Sustainability Fund. A way to institutionalize corporate open source support, and even better, decentralize the decision making to their engineering force. I don&

The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa

The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa

Driving the open source movement in the continent.

On Github Sponsors

On Github Sponsors

Why we welcome it, and four ways Open Collective is different