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Open Collective
Company blog · blog.opencollective.combusinessculture
Open Collective is the company blog at blog.opencollective.com, writing about business and culture. Since 2019, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Open Collective's blog for posts on the OCF dissolution, the platform's fee structure, and funding figures for open source projects. The comments mostly cite or link these posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The official blog of Open Collective
Most-linked posts?
- Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-28
- Moving beyond post-install messages2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-06
- Open Collective Plans ‘Exit to Community’2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-18
- The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
- Funds for Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-25
What Hacker News says?
Hi all, I'm Lauren Gardner, the Executive Director of Open Source Collective (OSC). I wanted to share my gratitude for all of the conversation and help supporting the projects in flux after the announcement that OCF is dissolving. To clarify: only OCF is closing down. This does not impact all the FOSS and OSS projects hosted in the Open Source Collective. While OCF hosts several projects that need c3 status, the bul…
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on “Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution”Submitted Funds for Open Source as a story · 282 points
HN discussionOpenCollective used to be much more transparent about how this was handled, but I don't think the math has actually changed much over the years: Open Source Collective has a 10% fee. To my understanding, 5% of that used to go to OSC itself and 5% of it used to go to OpenCollective. OSC is stable, and still around, so I assume this math continues to work fine, but they simplified the view of it to just say "10% Host…
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on “Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution”Submitted Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution as a story · 173 points
HN discussionGiven this news, it's interesting to read the "Investor Update" published by Open Collective earlier this month: https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-inc-investor... Open Collective will (presumably) experience a further drop in revenue as they lose the "platform fee" they collected from OCF
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on “Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution”Submitted Open Collective Plans ‘Exit to Community’ as a story · 53 points
HN discussionI think https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-sta... is a better link. It also seems “Open Collective Foundation” is shutting down, and “Open Collective” is a super-organization which contains a lot of sibling organizations (“Open Source Collective”, “Open Collective Europe”). And most of the entities getting donations through OCF can simply move to other organizations (hopefully automatically kee…
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on “Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution”Submitted Moving beyond post-install messages as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt seems that donation based model is not sustainable for OSS. Even the latest report of Open Collective ( https://blog.opencollective.com/12m-for-open-source/ ) suggests that an OSS projects are receiving just ~4k USD per project in a year on an average. This is below the min-wage of many countires if you look at it at a contributor level. Isn't there any alternative possible? This seems like a huge opportunity if…
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on “Open source development is not sustainable”Submitted GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective team up for sustainability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDirect link to OCF blog: https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-sta... FAQ: https://docs.opencollective.foundation/?ref=blog.opencollect...
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on “OpenCollective Shutting Down”Submitted Funding open source gives ZEIT access to world-class talent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI happen to believe in subsidised/affordable housing (I assume a UBI is what cybrox meant by not paying rent; also cracking down on housing-as-investments[1] sounds good to me, a layman, though apparently it wouldn't be enough[2] in our case, supply just needs to increase)—but I'm sure that other, less drastic societal changes would also be sufficient. For example, medium to large businesses could fund any open-sour…
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on “Code is run more than read”Submitted The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2022 in Review: Open Collective Foundation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community” (Part 2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early Musings on “Exit to Community” for Open Collective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Up Our Bounty Program as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Era of Mastodon – Open Collective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenCollective Strategy 2023-2024 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Schools Are the Future of Education as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NPM adds support for package funding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond post-install messages: NPM adds support for package funding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “We teach open source, we use open source, and we support open source” as a story · 1 points
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