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Open Collective - Our January Update

Open Collective

Feb 5, 2021 • 5 min read

Did you know Collectives can....

Get contributions in Bitcoin
Accept donations of public stock
Employ (or contract) their contributors
Register trademarks
Have assets held on their behalf (like hardware)
Provide acknowledgement letters for in-kind donations (to claim tax credits)

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New features

We've redesigned the navigation bar to make it easier to jump to sections or pages (like Expenses).

Updates can now have comments! Use Updates like a blog or newsletter to keep your community engaged and report on your progress.

Fiscal Hosts can now customize a question for new Collectives who want to join. And more customization options for Hosts are coming soon!

Company Update

Pia, the CEO of Open Collective, sends regular updates to our investors, and as a transparent oganization we share them with everyone. Find out about the platform's stats and metrics, financial status, strategic focus, and roadmap.

"Our goal is to catalyze impact by enabling communities to have economic power, providing them with tools to be financially independent and unlock access to funding."

Read the update →

Welcome Open Web Docs!

We're thrilled to welcome this important initiative under the umbrella of Open Source Collective, and have been blown away by the positive response from the community so far. Open Web Docs was created to ensure the long-term health of web platform documentation on de facto standard resources like MDN Web Docs, independently of any single vendor or organization.

Learn more →

OSC Fees Accounting Change

We're making a change to simplify fees for Open Source Collective. The fee amount is not changing (still 10%), but you'll no longer see it split 5% for OSC and 5% for Open Collective—you'll just see a single 10% fee. This change brings OSC into line with how we've simplified pricing across the platform.

Funder Spotlight

Chrome has committed $500k to support open source web frameworks and tools.

Trivago was a major open source sponsor in 2020, and they're committed to continue this promise for 2021.

News & Inspiration

The latest amazing updates from OCF initiatives, having an impact through mutual aid across the US.

We've started holding monthly calls for Fiscal Hosts, to share best practice and ask questions. Let us know if you want an invitation!
A more in-depth article about the launch of Open Web Docs and its background with MDN.
The Gift Collective is a new charity fiscal host for New Zealand.
Open Collective Foundation grew 20x in 2020 and is starting the year off running.
Read the latest update from Open Source Collective, fiscal host to over 2500 open source projects.

Tweets that make us proud

Dude please check out @opencollect It's the greatest thing. It handles so much of the annoying stuff and is easy. It really helped us with @SMAT_app
— emmi (@emmibevensee) January 13, 2021

A new non-profit open collective with full time staff contributing to @MozDevNet open web documentation, has already raised $0.5m from @Google, @Microsoft, @igalia et al. With notable @Mozilla alumni involved, hopefully this will help keep MDN going despite Mozilla layoffs. https://t.co/VqKf9wSfBJ
— Ben Francis (@bfrancis) January 25, 2021

100! 😳 We're in awe of this support! Thank you! 🙏 https://t.co/H4d5RKGSqT
— Open Web Docs (@OpenWebDocs) January 29, 2021

Monthly Leaderboard

Top Financial Contributors

Chrome $111,000
Kansas Community $108,750
Google $105,000
CodeNPlay $67,870
Trivago $63,976
Namaste Foundation $57,064
Internet Freedom $49,905
Victoria Wood $47,324
Piratpartiet $45,867
Margot Pritzker $20,000
S. Arozona Food Bank $20,000

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