Open Source 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…
news October 2017 News: Open Collective V2 released, and we’re hiring! Open Collective V2 is live! 🚀🚀
JavaScript Disclaimer: We accidentally linked this post to the latest newsletter! Open Collective V2 is live! 🚀🚀
news September 2017 News: Webpack Webinar, New Help Forum, Ads for OSS + more Webinar: How Webpack Reached $400K+/year in Sponsorship & Crowdfunding
case studies 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…
news July 2017 News: Events Feature, Ad Support for Collectives, + more You can now host meetups, conferences, and fundraisers through your Open Collective. You can now host meetups, conferences, and fundraisers through your Open Collective, with ticket revenue going directly to your budget.
Community 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…
case studies 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.
news June 2017 News: Survey reveals number one problem in open source Documentation is a big challenge, but a little funding can help a lot.
news May Update: Join us at SustainOSS! + more June 19 in SF @ GitHub HQ Join us for SustainOSS, a one day conversation about how to sustain open source for the future. It’s a small event (100 people max) so please make sure to book your space soon. We have travel assistance, childcare subsidies, and scholarships available. And,
news April Update: $200K for Open Source: Achievement Unlocked The Open Source Collective has an annual budget of over $200,000! And other news.
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…
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…