Pia Mancini - Open Collective

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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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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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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Use your Stock for Good

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

Open Source

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.

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2020 in Review & 2021 Update

Open letter from CEO Pia Mancini to Open Collective's investorsWow, 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 help each other

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

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

Open Collective and the Open Collective 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 full transparency. The Open Collective Platform

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 numbers were positive and we launched a new strategy we called Fiscal Sponsorship as a service to respond to COVID-19 Relief needs. Lots of updates

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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

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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. We waived our fees for three months so these amazing groups

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Open Collective Update!

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

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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 for their communities and

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’

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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 FarWe started Open Collective with a revenue

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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.

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 package maintainers use their best judgement to stop or continue this practice as they see fit. Since

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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 even better, decentralize the decision making to their engineering force. I don't know if he remembers, but

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The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa

Driving the open source movement in the continent.

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On Github Sponsors

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

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Investors Update — February 2019

Dear Investors, Hope you are well! Before all, Xavier will be in San Francisco April 2–17th. He will send you a separate email to coordinate a time to meet since it’s been so long we haven’t touched base in person. Other exciting news, I’m moving to