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Open Source Collective's Strategy 2022-2025

In this post we outline the strategy for Open Source Collective, our five-year-old host organisation that now supports over 3,000 projects and their communities.

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$12,000,000 received on behalf of open source projects in 2021

In 2021 Open Source Collective received more financial support for open source projects than all previous years combined, over 12 million dollars. Here’s what we’re doing to continue that trend…

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Igalia's Open Prioritization Project: Advancing the Web Commons for All

The goal is nothing less than the democratization of the web’s futureAt Igalia, we believe very strongly in the open web and its advancement. One of the barriers we see to moving forward is that adding new features to web browsers has always been dependent on the resources of

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What happens when you donate to Morevna Project?

Transparently trace a $500 contribution through Open CollectiveThe mission of Morevna Project is to develop, improve and popularize open-source technologies for animation. While all money flows are transparent on Open Collective, it's interesting to trace and explain the path it takes in a specific example. Morevna Project's recent blog post

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Helping Open-Source Contributors Escape Afghanistan

How the community came together to help families escape a war zone.The Persian proverb یکی برای همه و همه برای یکی means "Every one should sacrifice for the community, and the community should come together for the one". This has been exemplified over the last month, as the open

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OCF Updates we Love! Spring/Summer 2021 Edition

Check out the latest updates from some of the initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation.

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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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FundOSS: We heard your questions, so we got you answers.

This Spring, we’ll be supercharging contributions in our first ever matching campaign! FundOSS is a pilot program of that uses a mathematical distribution of funds to proportionally multiply a single donation. If you want to learn more Read our FundOSS FAQ v1 below!

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Supporting an Ethereum ecosystem with the OASIS Baseline Protocol

Open Source Collective is excited to be a partner the OASIS Baseline Protocol incentive program. Baseline just received a $100K grant from the Ethereum Foundation to advance their research efforts. We look forward to other collaboratively maintaining this work!

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The impact of Airbnb's support for open source

Airbnb has long appeared on our top open source sponsors leaderboard, but this year they are taking it to the next level. More than just numbers, hearing from maintainers in their own words about how financial support has helped their projects thrive really drives home the impact open source sponsorship

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Introducing Open Web Docs

We are excited to support the official formation of Open Web Docs. Independent of any single vendor, Open Web Docs is a collaborative network bringing first-class web platform documentation to all. See the official announcement below.

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GitHub Sponsors for Companies, Open Source Collective for People

Contribution to the sustainability of open source should be as easy as turning on a faucet. We’ve partnered with GitHub for some time already to enable Sponsors funding to flow through to Open Collective, and the integration has already channeled thousands to open source projects. Now we’re excited

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Open Source Collective News—Nov 2020

Holding trademarks, legal terms update, & ecosystem initiativesOSC is fiscal host to over 2,250 open source projects on Open Collective. Holding project assets and trademarksOpen Source Collective now has the ability to hold trademarks and other non-monetary assets for open source projects. If you are interested in this service,

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OSC Program Updates

A lot has been happening at Open Source Collective lately! FOSS Contributor FundsThe season brought much momentum for the implementation and extension of the FOSS Contributor Fund. OSC Director of Growth and Partnerships Alyssa Wright spoke about FOSS Contributor funds at State of the Source. Image credit: GitCoinFunded by the

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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.

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Open Collective Update!

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

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(Not IRL) FOSS Funding Event! Come May 22nd & Come Shine.

On Friday, May 22nd, FOSS Responders will host a virtual event to provide financial support for organizations affected by the profound disruptions -- to our economy and our community -- of Covid-19.

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New Paid Plans for Fiscal Hosts

We are launching updated features for Fiscal Hosts on Open Collective, with a new pricing plan.Fiscal Hosts are the entities behind the scenes who make it possible for Collectives to receive and spend money, these changes apply to them. The Story So FarWe started Open Collective with a revenue

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Beyond post-install messages: npm adds support for package funding

Open Collective previously promoted the use of postinstall messages, output in the developer terminal each time someone installed a package. This practice proved controversial, and in September we stopped encouraging it. We've let package maintainers use their best judgement to stop or continue this practice as they see fit. Since

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Indeed's Open Source Sustainability Strategy

During the last SustainOSS in London, Duane O'Brien let slip a comment that made me super happy, Indeed was piloting a FOSS Sustainability Fund. A way to institutionalize corporate open source support, and even better, decentralize the decision making to their engineering force. I don't know if he remembers, but