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A collection of 26 posts

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
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

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    Open Collective
  • Kayla Epstein
    Kayla Epstein
12 min read
Building an Open Source Care Plane, aka FOSS Responders
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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.

  • Alyssa Wright
    Alyssa Wright
4 min read
Open Collective Update!
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Open Collective Update!

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

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
  • Open Collective
    Open Collective
3 min read
Maintaining the Maintainers: Open Source Peer Support Group
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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.

  • Richard Littauer
    Richard Littauer
2 min read
The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa
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The Next Billion Creators: Open Source Community Africa

Driving the open source movement in the continent.

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
4 min read
What Core Contributors Want
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What Core Contributors Want

Results from our survey of open source maintainers

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
3 min read
How  and why should companies sustain open source communities?
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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.

  • Xavier Damman
    Xavier Damman
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
Rethinking the Tools for Collectives
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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…

  • Xavier Damman
    Xavier Damman
4 min read
Introducing BackYourStack
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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.

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
2 min read
The New Citizen
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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…

  • Xavier Damman
    Xavier Damman
3 min read
Free pizzas for your tech meetup: S02E01 🍕👩🏻‍💻👨🏿‍💻😋
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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…

  • Xavier Damman
    Xavier Damman
2 min read
Sponsorship alert! Waffle.io is supporting tech meetups up to $750.
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Sponsorship alert! Waffle.io is supporting tech meetups up to $750.

Woot! How does it work?

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
1 min read
Strawberry Streets, cambiando el mundo una calle a la vez
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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…

  • Nico Barreto
    Nico Barreto
7 min read
Our Philosophy on Contributing to the Open Source Community — and How You Can Too
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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…

  • Cody Arsenault
    Cody Arsenault
4 min read
From the Internet of Information to the Internet of Actions
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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…

  • Xavier Damman
    Xavier Damman
3 min read
SustainOSS 2017: The Report
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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…

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
6 min read
🍕🍕Pizzas for your next tech meetup are on Cloudflare! 🍕🍕
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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!!

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
1 min read
Cities are Open Collectives
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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.

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
6 min read
Using Ads to Sustain Open Source
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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…

  • Pia Mancini
    Pia Mancini
5 min read
We Gathered 100 Open Source Sustainers — Here’s What We Learned
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We Gathered 100 Open Source Sustainers — Here’s What We Learned

SustainOSS was a one day unconference for open source sustainers. There were no keynotes, expo halls or talks — only discussions about how…

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
3 min read
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Turning Our City into an Open Collective

As nation states are increasingly disconnected from reality, how can we enable citizens to reclaim their cities? In Brussels, we are…

  • Xavier Damman
    Xavier Damman
5 min read
Being a Circle in a World Made for Triangles
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Being a Circle in a World Made for Triangles

Alanna (Krause) Irving is working with Open Collective, gathering stories at the forefront of transparent community-driven financial power.

  • Alanna Irving
    Alanna Irving
6 min read
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