Open Collective Update - September 2022

Discover the latest news and features we're proud of!

Upgrade your budget with our new visualisation feature! 💰

Transform your budget and gain a deeper insight into your financial well-being 📈

Our new budget visualisation enables a more accessible exploration of your data through graphs and categories. This feature pulls information from your tagged expenses and contributions.

We recommend tagging your expenses so your graphs display accurate expense data.

This tool will help your funders get a better sense of your financial well-being. You can now easily answer questions like: How long has the project been actively raising money? - Is the funding consistent - How does the project currently spend its funding?

Learn More about this new Feature

OCF is looking for Board Members 🌻

We are looking for 1 - 2 new members for Open Collective Foundation to add to our growing board.

OCF is a fiscal sponsor in a growing international network of organizations who use the Open Collective platform, to create efficiencies with money and amplify impact in communities.

We are looking for a board member who is:

- Based in the U.S.

- Experienced with 501(c)(3) governance at our scale ($30m), especially financial oversight, compliance, and policy

- Comfortable working online & remotely, with our distributed organization

- Excited about our mission and approach

- Up for innovative and radical ideas—we are experimental and agile

We encourage you to share this call with people you know who would be great board members!

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We want your Feedback! 🐝

We're testing some new features to revamp the Collective Profile page, we would love to have input from Collective Admins who are interested in sharing their opinions 👩🏼‍💻

If you’re interested:

- Please reach out to design@opencollective.com

- Include your Collective’s URL

- A small intro about your community (1-2 sentences)

- Your role and personal mission

- How long you've been using Open Collective

News & Inspiration

🇳🇿 OpenMined (an OCF Collective) receives backing from the New Zealand Government and Microsoft

🤟🏼 "80% of the Internet is built on PHP." New case study PHP Foundation - Alive and Kicking, an OSC Collective

PHP Foundation: Alive and Kicking

PHP Foundation co-founder Roman Pronskiy on the state of the language, and why its future is bright. Born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Roman Pronsky has always worked in the tech industry. He started by studying math, and later programming organically fit in. After 10 years working as a software

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🗽 Streetlives Project YourPeer announces plan to prevent and end youth homelessness in NYC

💰 Valuing What Matters in a Post-Growth Society by Mike Strode - OCF Program Manager

💻 MCH (May Contain Hackers) Hacker Camp: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure

👾 Open Source Collective Updates We Love September Edition

Open Source Collective Updates we love - September Edition ❤️

Thank you for sharing the awesome work that your collectives are doing to sustain the open source ecosystem 👾

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🐥 Fiscal Host, Social Change Nest just shared their first-ever impact report!

🇺🇸 Apply for Techtonica’s full-time software engineering program (Deadline October 10)

Interviews

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Liberatory Governance & Belonging Panel event exploring "How do we organize ourselves to build belonging?" - Alanna Irving, COO of OC

🌎 The Future Is Collective podcast interview with Alanna Irving, COO of OC, exploring our work and plan to exit to community

⚖️ Democracy Needs Continual Upgrading - Innovative Minds interviewed Pia Mancini - CEO of OC - where she discusses her mission to modernize political institutions in the Internet age

Events

🎟️ Post your #events in our Discord and we'll promote them here

📊 29th Nov - 2nd Dec - Doing Work Better Together Sponsored by Open Collective

A 4-day conference exploring practical challenges at the frontiers of collaboration and organization building. Use code OPENCOLLECTIVE for a 15% discount on tickets!

💰 6th October - Sociocracy and Money: Patterns for Transparent and Consent-Based Financial Systems

🦀 7th October - OCF's October Community Forum

🍋 10th October - OCF's Solidarity Economy 101

🎉 19th - 21st October - Tech Workers Coalition are hosting our first intergenerational tech & labour teach-in.

The event is free. A mutual aid fund has been set up on Open Collective (yay!) for people to contribute towards helping those that need financial assistance to take time off work.

⭐️ 20th October - OCF's Money Health Collective Session to explore stories and wellbeing around money

🐍 1-3rd December - Pia Mancini CEO of OC will be speaking at PyData Global Virtual Conference

Posts that make us proud

these folks help fuel many of the open source software you use to build things. there's probably a line or two in your code that got funded thanks to @opencollect https://t.co/CJgQLJC3oB
— santi.eth 💧— follow @pohdao (@santisiri) September 14, 2022

The staff team are incredibly pleased to announce catppuccin's new logo, funded through our @opencollect!

We are so grateful for our lovely community banding together to make this a reality <3 We're only just getting started, so watch this space!! pic.twitter.com/JKBt4oUJHV
— Catppuccin (@catppuccintheme) September 6, 2022

E2C at scale! This is phenomenal https://t.co/MN2dRa4BCT
— pia mancini (@piamancini) September 15, 2022

@piamancini is a co-founder of @opencollect which provides infrastructure for thousands of open source projects to collect millions of dollars in revenue every month.

Open collective has truly become a critical part of the ecosystem (we use it for every project @NumFOCUS) (3/N)
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) September 9, 2022

It won’t. pic.twitter.com/jfnVbWNS1y
— pia mancini (@piamancini) September 8, 2022

We've actually had 3 new sponsors come on board over the last few months.

Part of this is due to switching to @opencollect, which has made it much easier for us to collect the funds. There are companies out there which want to sponsor Perl projects.
— Olaf Alders (@olafalders) September 20, 2022

OpenMined is now working with NZ & US Govs, Microsoft and Twitter to support independent AI algorithm research! They are a collective with @o_c_foundation via @opencollect! How cool is this! ⚡️⚡️ https://t.co/fpwKtPiShl
— pia mancini (@piamancini) September 24, 2022