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Interview with Aaron Clark: Creating Opportunities for Stability
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Interview with Aaron Clark: Creating Opportunities for Stability

Justice Reskill aims to connect justice-involved people with the access and support they need to create a new path for themselves. Aaron Clark, founder, tells us about his mission to serve these communities.

  • Open Collective
    Open Collective
  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
11 min read
Updates We Love: December 2020
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Updates We Love: December 2020

Dec 2020 Updates from our hosted initiatives

  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
3 min read
Autumn Update from West Brooklyn Waterfront Mutual Aid
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Autumn Update from West Brooklyn Waterfront Mutual Aid

We wanted to share this beautiful letter that was sent by one of our hosted mutual aid initiatives. We are so grateful to be able to support and catalyze collectives like West Brooklyn

  • Open Collective
    Open Collective
3 min read
Amidst the election, a new network map analyzes politicians' tweets
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Amidst the election, a new network map analyzes politicians' tweets

This open-source anti-'infodemic' tool can tell you who Trump interacts with and who has influence on politicians online."The 'infodemic' we are experiencing now works in many ways like a pandemic," says SMAT

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
2 min read
Celebrating Black Excellence in Tech: Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline
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Celebrating Black Excellence in Tech: Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline

Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline

  • Open Collective
    Open Collective
  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
12 min read
A New Foundation to Support Black Parent Entrepreneurs
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A New Foundation to Support Black Parent Entrepreneurs

We spoke with James Oliver, Jr. about his experience being a parent, an entrepreneur, and about his new foundation to support the community of Black ParentPreneurs.

  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
8 min read
Play By the Rules, or Create New Ones
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Play By the Rules, or Create New Ones

We spoke with Nathan Schneider of Community Rule about the importance of more accessible governance practices within online communities.

  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
6 min read
"Solidarity Not Charity" in Bushwick, NY
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"Solidarity Not Charity" in Bushwick, NY

We spoke with Kristen Ablamsky and Fernando Ramos, two local organizers of Bushwick Ayuda Mutua about New York’s community engagement and mutual aid in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
13 min read
$2m for COVID-19: Stories of Solidarity
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$2m for COVID-19: Stories of Solidarity

Over the last few months, we've been privileged to support a massive community response to COVID-19 by 250+ Collectives. We waived our fees for three months so these amazing groups could focus all

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
4 min read
Zcoin on Open Source Collective
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Zcoin on Open Source Collective

A decentralized funding model means they are more free from bias. Zcoin set up an open collective, where a community can support and sustain their work of privacy on the blockchain.

  • Alyssa Wright
    Alyssa Wright
2 min read
Growing Community One Slice at a Time
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Growing Community One Slice at a Time

Over the last couple years, Cloudflare has sponsored over $20,000 of pizza for 80+ tech meetups around the world, reaching over 4500 people. That’s a lot of slices!

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
2 min read
How funding open source gives Vercel access to world-class talent
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How funding open source gives Vercel access to world-class talent

Interview with Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch and Head of Growth Sarup Banskota.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
7 min read
Taking on Diversity & Inclusion in the Drupal Community
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Taking on Diversity & Inclusion in the Drupal Community

We spoke with Drupal Diversity and Inclusion team leader Tara King about how her team are going beyond the depressing statistics and achieving real change.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
10 min read
Frontend Masters: "We teach open source, we use open source, and we support open source."
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Frontend Masters: "We teach open source, we use open source, and we support open source."

Frontend Masters regularly appears on our leaderboard for their contributions to the open source ecosystem. They’ve sponsored nearly 40 projects and show no signs of slowing down. I spoke to founder Marc Grabanski to find out why.

  • Open Collective
    Open Collective
7 min read
Solving open source funding by giving sponsors a seat at the table
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Solving open source funding by giving sponsors a seat at the table

How creating a Steering Group became the game-changer for Universal Viewer, propelling this long-running project into a whole new phase.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
6 min read
Witchcraft: the magic of math, functional programming, and community
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Witchcraft: the magic of math, functional programming, and community

Interview with Brooklyn Zelenka, blockchain engineer, functional programming math wizard, community builder, and founder of Fission and…

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
10 min read
Babel’s rise to financial sustainability
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Babel’s rise to financial sustainability

Making a living making open source

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
7 min read
Enriching commons by practicing with money
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Enriching commons by practicing with money

For the Secure Scuttlebutt community, it involves money but it’s not about money

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
4 min read
Samsung Next Stack Zero Grants
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Samsung Next Stack Zero Grants

How we disbursed $480,000 in grants transparently, with minimum hassle

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
2 min read
Stay calm and untangle your GitHub notifications
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Stay calm and untangle your GitHub notifications

Octobox.io: how to tame those garden fairies.

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
6 min read
How JHipster’s Bounty System saved the project
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How JHipster’s Bounty System saved the project

The back story.

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
4 min read
Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year
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Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year

Webpack’s Sean Larkin on growing the project’s budget with crowdfunding, sponsorships, grants, partnerships… and pure love.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
21 min read
Cycle.js: A Unified Theory of Everything for JavaScript
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Cycle.js: A Unified Theory of Everything for JavaScript

Nick Johnstone on what makes Cycle special, the two-year long ‘weekend project’, great community engagement, and the future of programming.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
11 min read
Social.coop: A Cooperative Decentralized Social Network
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Social.coop: A Cooperative Decentralized Social Network

Social.coop is a cooperatively run instance of Mastodon, a decentralized social network based on open protocols and free, open-source…

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
7 min read
Open Source is the Next Mission for These Soldiers
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Open Source is the Next Mission for These Soldiers

Operation Code supports veterans and military spouses entering the tech industry. Interview with co-founder Conrad Hollomon.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
5 min read
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