Open Source From Firms to Collectives Moving beyond the old model of private firms to create economic value together.
Open Source Moving beyond the charity framework A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.
Open Source Let’s talk about money When we were building the first version of Open Collective, we found that communities and their members often had a complex relationship…
Open Source Meet the Open Source Design Collective We love to spend time with collectives to learn why they do what they do, what their goals are and what they need to achieve them. We…
Open Source What’s new on Open Collective? We have so much great news this month, we could barely wait to share it with you! ❤ ❤
Open Source Together we crowdfunded a yearly budget of over $100,000 for Open Source. And we are only getting started!
Basic Income What’s new on OpenCollective? We’ve been keeping ourselves pretty busy lately on OpenCollective and we’d like to share it with you!
React Funding for Server-side rendering in React-boilerplate A few weeks ago, we decided to rebuild our front-end from scratch. We evaluated a few react-based starter kits and found Max Stoiber’s…
Mexico ¿Un Colectivo Abierto para CDMX? Hace poco estuve en Ciudad de México, presentando OpenCollective con una propuesta: crear un Colectivo Abierto en CMDX. El LabCDMX organizó…
Politics #FreeRideToVote A couple of months ago we created an Open Collective to pool money to pay for rides for people to go vote on November 8th. Our political…
Open Source WANTED: A product manager for Open Source projects We use MochaJS at OpenCollective. It’s an open source framework for Javascript testing. It was one of the first open source projects that…
Open Source Money and Open Source Communities Ever since we announced our new service to enable open source communities to collect money from backers and sponsors, the same question…
Open Source A New Way to Fund Open Source Projects Goodwill only takes you so far. Here is a new way to fund open source projects that aligns the interests of companies with open source…
Open Collective Some tips for funding your collective Being able to successfully crowdfund your collective is super hard. While you might benefit from some widespread internet love, you still…
Open Source OpenCollective is now open source OpenCollective is on a mission to give more economic power to communities. Greater economic power means greater impact. It should be easy…
Politics If you can’t beat them, abstract them. Four years ago, with a group of peers, we started in Argentina a new kind of political party, el Partido de la Red (Net Party). We were…
Startup Playing the long game Our goal with OpenCollective is to build a global infrastructure on top of which anyone can start an association anywhere in the world as…
Startup Pia Mancini and Aseem Sood join OpenCollective as cofounders I’m super excited to announce that Pia and Aseem are both joining the OpenCollective adventure. They are both remarkable people with very…
Wtfeconomy A New Form of Association for the Internet Generation — part 2 How can we do things together that require money without having to worry about the complexity of creating and maintaining legal entities?
Wtfeconomy A New Form of Association for the Internet Generation — part 1 So far, the Internet has been very good at helping people do things together. But once it involves money, there is no good solution…
