Open Collective Update - May 2022
5.4M dollars raised, direct relief for 5000+ families
1K Project is a distributed peer-to-peer support network that empowers sponsors anywhere in the world to send $1,000 directly to the bank account of a Ukrainian family (whether still in the country or as refugees).
1K Project partnered with Open Collective Foundation to enable pooling donations to fund families. Outside of Open Collective, individuals could sponsor a single family directly, but most larger donors and philanthropies can generally only fund a formal nonprofit. Open Collective is essential to enabling partnerships with companies like Yahoo, who sponsored 450 families with a $450,000 donation.
In this heartfelt conversation, we speak with Ukrainian-American founder Alex Iskold.
"As you can imagine, it has been incredibly chaotic, with a lot of sleepless nights and stress. But weโre making a pretty significant difference in peopleโs lives."
Massive congratulations on their recent $1.1m match funding campaign ๐
Welcome NumFOCUS, a new fiscal host to 40+ projects, with a mission to promote open practices in research, data, and scientific computing ๐งฌ๐ฌ
Building the team to deliver on Open Source Collective's Strategy
We've been busy building the team to deliver on our strategy and to support our community of maintainers, contributors, and financial supporters. With that in mind we're excited to introduce to you Lauren, Richard and Ronen ๐
Work at a Mission-Driven Tech Company with High Impact that Cares about You
We are looking for a senior "full-stack" software engineer whoโs excited about open source, making communities sustainable, and transparent finances ๐ธ
Podcasts galore!
๐ CEO Pia Mancini's interview on Thinking out loud podcast - Building sustainable open-source projects and the Exit to Community (E2C) strategy we are exploring
๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ป Making Sense of Web3: CEO Pia Mancini's interview on the Life itself podcast - learn about Open Collective, steward ownership and exit to community
๐๐ผ COO Alanna Irving's interview on the Frontiers of Commoning Podcast - hacking organizational structures with our values, the benefits of distributed leadership, and the confidence that comes from managing risk together
News & Inspiration
๐ฐ Head along to OC Europe's event in Paris on May 24th
๐ฟ Happen Films is building the gift economy for their Community Supported Filmmaking
๐ป OCF monthly community forum - 3rd June
โ๏ธ EVENT: Paths to Sustainable Fuels: Scalability of biofuels, challenges in the water-energy-food nexus and paths to sustainable aviation fuels
๐ We've fixed up the Search feature on the platform! Add Tags to Collectives (Settings -> Info) to make them easier to find
๐พ Open Source Compensation - Talking Drupal #346
๐ Providing access to housing justice - collaborative action by Edmund Hillary Fellows
๐คฏ Missed OFCs Solidarity economy 101 event - You're in luck! Watch the recording or this testimonial
๐ป Babel - community maintained compiler for evolving the future of JavaScript reached $1M raised
โฐ What is Time Banking? Check out this awesome reel by @danafortune
๐ค๐ผ Open Collective Foundation has supported the full translation of the Open Collective platform to Spanish!
Posts that make us proud
Woot! @OC_Europe in the house. New strategy, new looks and now an account in everyoneโs favorite dumpster fire ๐ฅ of a platform! Say hello and be nice to them ๐ฅฐ
โ pia mancini (@piamancini) May 3, 2022
Our @opencollect fund has been growing and it finally allows us to pay out contributors that help us achieve our roadmap goals. You want to earn ๐ธ while working on OSS? This is your chance! Have a look at our expense policies (https://t.co/Hy0y7O0Moc) and get involved! ๐ค https://t.co/R6AdaX9o13
โ WebdriverIO (@webdriverio) May 4, 2022
Thank you so much @melissaterras! With the help of @opencollect we have managed to get donations from over 100+ generous donors for https://t.co/1dYEJoJROL already. https://t.co/hJISM40AQi
โ Sebastian Majstorovic ๐บ๐ฆ (@storytracer) April 26, 2022
Thanks @opencollect for building that mini feature 'mark as incomplete' for expenses. Seems tiny, but it makes a real difference, every day, for the support we offer to collectives. Offering direct, open, transparant communication. This platform is amazing. ๐๐ฝ
โ Leen โ๏ธ๐ฒ (@leen_schelfhout) May 17, 2022
@all4climatedao
Same. What an emotional email to read and thank you @alexiskold for giving us this opportunity to help โค๏ธ https://t.co/8QI4KZS8eg
โ Shivaas Gulati (@shivaas) May 18, 2022
Monthly Leaderboard
Top Contributors
DCBADR Foundation $1,100,000
Fidelity Charitable $397,900
Sloan Foundation $309,600
Moisey Uretsky $300,000
Barr Foundation $230,000
Schwab Charitable $224,600
Twitter $166,320
Google $153,000
Santa Fe Community $149,514
Yahoo $132,500
Top Collectives
By contributions this month (USD)
1kproject $3,480,987
OpenMined $476,229
Study into Action $230,360
Ecosystems Platform $193,600
Julian Collective $175,000
By contributors this month
IFC.js 533
1kproject 473
Projection 268
Dark Reader 159
Sucho 123
Top New Collectives
By contributions (USD)
Ecosystems Platform $193,600
osu! tournaments $25,008
General Cuties $19,895
Mother's Day Strike $7,916
Food Not Cops $6,702
By contributors
Mothers Day Strike 51
General Cuties 40
CAD Sketcher 35
AmberELEC 21
Food Not Cops 19
๐ The Open Collective Team