Open Collective

Today, Open Collective is a topic of great relevance and interest to many people around the world. Since ancient times, Open Collective has been the object of study, debate and reflection, and its impact covers various aspects of daily life. Currently, the importance of Open Collective has been enhanced by the rise of new technologies, which have opened new perspectives of analysis and understanding on this topic. In this article, we will explore different aspects of Open Collective, from its origin to its relevance today, through its implications in different areas of social, cultural, economic and political life.

Open Collective is a crowdfunding platform focused on grassroots groups. It gives organizations, communities, projects to get a legal status and raise funding through subscription or one time payment. It's particularly favoured by open source projects. It currently hosts funding for thousands of open-source communities.

History

Open Collective is a venture capital-funded tech startup—owned by founders, investors, and employees—with an obligation to make returns.

Projects with corporate support tend to rack up higher financing than donation projects led by individuals.

Open Collective Foundation (not the platform) was announced to be dissolved by the end of 2024.

References

  1. ^ "Open Collective is a GoFundMe-like service for open source projects". VentureBeat. 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
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  3. ^ Zhou, Jiayuan; Wang, Shaowei; Kamei, Yasutaka; Hassan, Ahmed E.; Ubayashi, Naoyasu (2021-11-30). "Studying donations and their expenses in open source projects: a case study of GitHub projects collecting donations through open collectives". Empirical Software Engineering. 27 (1): 24. doi:10.1007/s10664-021-10060-y. ISSN 1573-7616.
  4. ^ "ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Collective Foundation Dissolving Effective 12/31/2024 - Open Collective Foundation". opencollective.com. Retrieved 2024-03-17.

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