Open Collective Update - October 2020
New Moderation Tools
As part of our plan to zap spam, we're giving Collective admins more control over who they accept money from: a 'reject' button on contributions (click 'view details' on a transaction to see it), plus the option to block contributor categories like gambling sites or VPNs. You can define your Collective's rules under settings > policies > contribution policy. We've also updated our Community Guidelines.
Collective Stories
Walk The Vote is a non-partisan movement of activists, organizers, technologists—ordinary people of all stripes—coming together to help voters across the country drop off their ballots in person. Read more →
The founder of ATX Mental Health Fund writes:
"I saw the looming crisis and thought 'Well, this is bad. This is really, really bad.' But while I was doomscrolling, I saw another trend emerge, one that gave me hope that things could get better. I saw the Austin community spring into action with mutual aid projects. Together, we decided that we cannot wait for the powers that be to decide that we are worthy of survival and care. We can take care of each other."
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ESLINT has published a review of a year of paying contributors, detailing how they manage decision-making for their Collective budget.
Update from an inspiring Collective: In 3 Months We Have Positively Impacted The Lives Of Black ParentPreneurs
Fiscal Host News
UK
When COVID19 hit, the Social Change Nest leapt into action as fiscal host to mutual aid groups forming across the UK. We've been privileged to support them to support these groups with our platform, and now Open Collective UK is merging in, too.
"There is nothing like a conversation about who wants to be the chair to knock a perfectly functioning social movement off course.... We have been able to support over 150 Mutual Aid groups to get going quickly by providing them with fiscal hosting back office support for groups, not individuals. This meant in the face of a truly global emergency, there were no arguments about money, no one person being forced to take responsibility for keeping money in their bank account, or one person being responsible for ALL the decision making."Read more →
New Zealand
Open Collective NZ is off and running! One kiwi writer is calling it "the future of funding impact projects".
Open Source Collective
Check out the latest OSC transparent board report covering the August and October meetings.
News & Inspiration
Want to know more about how the Social Change Nest uses Open Collective to support mutual aid groups? Read this in-depth report.
The FOSS Governance Collection is an indexed collection of governance documents from Free and Open Source Software projects.
Talks and events
- /dev/color is hosting an AMA with Justice Reskill funder Brad Feld: The Startup Community - What’s Working, What’s Not.
- Alyssa is speaking at RedHat Open Source in Business and All Things Open.
- Pia will be keynoting the Open Source Strategy Forum.
- Alanna gave a talk at the OpenUP Summit.
Tweets that make us proud
Quick #progress update!
— Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective (@specollective) September 23, 2020
- We are officially 3 months old
- We have raised $8,452.11 on @opencollect (26 donors)
- Paid our contributors a total of $7,070.29
- Reached 25 members (mentors, researchers, interns)
- Help 3 members find work including a FT dev position and PT QA job
☝️ Every developer should do that RIGHT NOW.
— Anton Lavrenov (@lavrton) October 12, 2020
Go to the project manager (or who controls finances) and say:
"We are using Open Source libraries that give us a lot of value to our company. I think we must support them back. Let's create @opencollect and start donating."
RT
Great! Be sure to use @opencollect when you get started, so you can receive tax-deductible donations as you wait for the slow gubmint to approve your 501c 3. That's what I did with @ParentPreneurF.
— Black-ParentPreneur Advocate (@jamesoliverjr) October 14, 2020
We filed July 20th & STILL don't have ours. Open Collective saved the day.
This was fun! I've invited the great @leokewitz from @opencollect for a chat. We talk about the US wildfires🔥, sustainability in the OSS ecosystem🤝, and creating new programming languages👽. Watch it here: https://t.co/b1Xrlozuhe
— gunar.uk (@gunar) October 1, 2020
Monthly Leaderboard
Top Financial Contributors
1. Google $603,689
2. Stratégie et Appui $160,805
3. SVCF $50,000
4. EMCC France $34,494
5. Mozilla $25,000
6. Anchor Point $25,000
7. Schmidt Family $25,000
8. Capacity Project $19,516
9. UCSF CDHI $14,700
10. Benevity $12,192
Top Collectives
by new contributors
Meals of Gratitude +118
Dark Reader +80
Bushwick Ayuda Mutua + 71
Top New Collectives & Funds
by contributions
Google CMS $100,000
Open Covid Screen $50,128
GRC Activation Team $10,010