News 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
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
Open Source 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
Community The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa Driving the open source movement in the continent.
News 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
case studies Samsung Next Stack Zero Grants How we disbursed $480,000 in grants transparently, with minimum hassle
case studies Stay calm and untangle your GitHub notifications Octobox.io: how to tame those garden fairies.
News August Investor’s Update Dear investors, August was a really good month for us (total donations are +37%). Confirming the trend we’ve been seeing, 63% of donations are from sponsors of which +⅔ are recurring. Same for
Community Introducing BackYourStack We started a tool to help companies discover their open source dependencies that seek financial support. Here’s the back story.
News July 2018 Open Collective Newsletter Welcome file-icons, PyThess Meetup, TorontoJS, vulcan, ruijinet,Free Code Camp Philly, Unirx, go-prompt, cryptpad and publii to Open…
News Open Collective June 2018 Newsletter Welcome HousingDB, Thessaloníki ReactJS Meetup, OnionBrowser, Biohackers Collective, BootstrapCDN, The Lounge, bigjs and Jest to Open…
News May Newsletter — Open Collective Welcome marshmallow, graphqlcompose, GraphQL Shield, MashApps.Metro, isomorphic-git and Parcel to Open Collective! And a very special…
News April 2018 Investors Update Dear investors, This is my first investors update since taking the role as CEO. We recently announced the team changes publicly and I wrote a blog post about why I couldn’t be
how-to What’s your Collective’s expense policy? Make it easier for your community to know what they can expense to your collective!
News My new role at Open Collective! I couldn’t be more excited to share with you that I’m becoming Open Collective’s new CEO!
Community Sponsorship alert! Waffle.io is supporting tech meetups up to $750. Woot! How does it work?
