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2018 Update

Open Collective 2018 investors update.

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Open Collective Update — January 2019

Transparent Grants, Open Source Gift Cards, & Reimagining Money

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Stay calm and untangle your GitHub notifications

Octobox.io: how to tame those garden fairies.

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How JHipster’s Bounty System saved the project

The back story.

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Open Collective update — December 2018

🤶🏽🎄Give your developers the gift of giving!

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Rethinking the Tools for Collectives

What tools are used by collectives for their activities? How can we improve them? What‘s missing? How can we contribute as developers to…

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Open Collective Newsletter — October 2018

SustainOSS, Public API, Pledges and more!

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Open Collective GraphQL API preview

It’s finally there! We’re happy to announce the preview of our public GraphQL API. Based on everything we learned with our internal GraphQL API, we built something for everyone to use. It’s the first step in upgrading our platform and allowing anyone to interact with it.

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Newsletter — September 2018

Fearless Cities, Virtual Cards, latest leaderboard and more!

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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 individuals backer where ⅔ are also recurring. Numbers are looking healthy! There’s space to convert one time

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Open Collective—August 2018 Newsletter

Hello Drupal Camps!

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Introducing BackYourStack

We started a tool to help companies discover their open source dependencies that seek financial support. Here’s the back story.

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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…

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The New Citizen

15 years ago, the word “startup” was not in our vocabulary. In 2005, TechCrunch came along and put that name on the map. They did so by…

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Open Collective June 2018 Newsletter

Welcome HousingDB, Thessaloníki ReactJS Meetup, OnionBrowser, Biohackers Collective, BootstrapCDN, The Lounge, bigjs and Jest to Open…

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Free pizzas for your tech meetup: S02E01 🍕👩🏻‍💻👨🏿‍💻😋

Last October we announced a great deal for your tech meetup. Cloudflare can cover your pizzas in exchange of being mentioned during your…

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May Newsletter — Open Collective

Welcome marshmallow, graphqlcompose, GraphQL Shield, MashApps.Metro, isomorphic-git and Parcel to Open Collective! And a very special…

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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 [https://blog.opencollective.com/my-new-role-at-open-collective/] about why I couldn’t be more excited to take on this new responsibility. Thank you all for

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What’s your Collective’s expense policy?

Make it easier for your community to know what they can expense to your collective!

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March 2018 Investors Update

Sorry for the delay in publishing this. We had to wait to make the team update about Pia and Aseem public before posting this.

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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!

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Team update

I have one sad news and one great news to tell you about.

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Sponsorship alert! Waffle.io is supporting tech meetups up to $750.

Woot! How does it work?

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February 2018 Investors Update

Dear investors, February was a short month but we broke through the bar of $100k in donations for the month 🎉 It’s a good milestone but it’s still quite a small number (remember, we only take 5%, so that’s $5k revenue per month, far from being enough to

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January 2018 Investors update

Dear investors, Here are the latest from the front. Team Lincoln Clarete [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lincoln-clarete-b0194158/] (cced) has joined the team as our first full time engineer! Originally from Brazil, he made his way to New York in 2012 where he worked at Yipit [https://yipit.com] and