Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution

Re:Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution by samspenc on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:14PM (#39542925)

Too bad, I always saw Open Collective as one of the few options open-source developers (who are not supported by Big Tech) had to self-fund their work.

Curious what people think are the best alternatives now? I can think of GitHub Sponsors as well as creator-friendly tools like Patreon, Locals etc.

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Re:Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution by ShaneCurcuru on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:23PM (#39543607)

Naming things is hard, as software engineers know. It's only OCF that's shutting down, not OC, or OCE, or OSC, or even OCNZ (I just found out about that one today).

In any case, there are plenty of other funding models/sites out there, the trick is finding one that really fits how your FOSS project works:

https://fossfunding.com/#how-are-individual-projects-or-main...

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Re:Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution by beberlei on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:24PM (#39543020)

Its just one financial host that is closing down. Most open source is on a different host called "Open SOURCE Collective". The platform still stays and there is no need to migrate to something else for open source projects.

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Re:Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution by buildfocus on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:23PM (#39543006)

Open Collective isn't shutting down - open-source funding is unaffected. The Open Collective _Foundation_ (OCF) appear to be part of the funding structure for open collective sponsorship of charitable but not necessarily open source organisations in the US, and only groups using the OCF to host their finances are affected.

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