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Pionir Free School Students outside in Serbia

“Free Schools Are the Future of Education”

An interview with Marko Kazic, creator of Pionir Free School in Serbia which serves as a replicable model towards building an exponential culture.

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Introducing: Funds for Open Source

Helping companies invest in open source projects because we want open source creators to have a good livelihood and work sustainably, which is critical to the health of the whole ecosystem.

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"It's OK to take care of your mental health right now" — ATX Mental Health Fund

We spoke with Samantha Meyer about her initiative to destigmatize the discussions and relief around mental health in Austin, Texas-in response to COVID, and beyond.

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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.

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Updates We Love: December 2020

Dec 2020 Updates from our hosted initiatives

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Celebrating Black Excellence in Tech: Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline

Juneteenth Conference & a Tech Apprenticeship Pipeline

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Building an Open Source Care Plane, aka FOSS Responders

The story of FOSS Responders and our UPLIFT! event – an event of open source financial support ($105K!) and celebration (7 time zones!) It is a story of sustaining open source during an unprecedented time of disruption and change.

Open Collective

Open Collective Update!

New Expense Flow, Bank Transfers, No Fees for COVID and more!

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Maintaining the Maintainers: Open Source Peer Support Group

The Open Source Collective, home of 1300+ open source projects on Open Collective, is starting peer-support calls for maintainers.

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The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa

Driving the open source movement in the continent.

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What Core Contributors Want

Results from our survey of open source maintainers

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How and why should companies sustain open source communities?

Notes from the Sustain community meetup in San Francisco, April 12th 2019.

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Samsung Next Stack Zero Grants

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

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

Woot! How does it work?

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Strawberry Streets, cambiando el mundo una calle a la vez

Este año arrancamos la edición de Open Collective en español. Estaré escribiendo artículos sobre personas trabajando en proyectos con el…

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Our Philosophy on Contributing to the Open Source Community — and How You Can Too

Open source has always been an important part of our operations. The open source community helps drive innovation, transparency, and…

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From the Internet of Information to the Internet of Actions

What do Trump supporters, Catalan separatists, the French political movement En Marche and Brexit voters have in common? If I’m making such…

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SustainOSS 2017: The Report

On June 19th, 2017, one hundred people gathered in San Francisco to create a cultural shift in how we think about the sustainability of…

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🍕🍕Pizzas for your next tech meetup are on Cloudflare! 🍕🍕

Support for Open Source comes in different ways, in this case it comes with cheese!!

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Cities are Open Collectives

Why we need to define a new social and economic unit to enable us to fully operate in this world.

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Using Ads to Sustain Open Source

Why someone who loves Privacy Badger, uses a non-tracking browser, and never cared for ads, is advocating their ethical use for open…