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Just correcting the quadratic funding link: https://fundoss.org - launching soon!

Open Collective team member here. All the money involved in this initiative goes to Open Source Collective 501(c)(6). As a non-profit, all revenues are reinvested back into the mission of building health and sustainability in the open source ecosystem. We're not really "raking in the big money" but if we do, it will all go toward supporting open source.

FWIW I agree with you about copyleft licenses, philosophically. But we've taken the approach of being very pragmatic when it comes to working with corporate sponsors, and we can't make them accept certain licenses, etc. Our approach is to build up funding for open source projects so they can be stronger and healthier and have the power to advocate for what they want to see in their ecosystem.

Open Collective team member here. I totally agree that the gig economy approach is unhealthy. A big goal of ours is to help open source creators earn a decent living making open source that can rival what they'd get paid working for a commercial company. We've managed to facilitate that for quite a few projects, but as an ecosystem we have a long way to go. We need way more companies to step up to the plate and way more money flowing in. We also support projects who build companies and commercial offerings out of their open source projects, as long as they remain genuinely open source, and have many Collectives with parallel companies in addition.

Open Collective team member here. This particular initiative is aimed at funding from major sponsors. Our platform also has crowdfunding functionality so projects can fundraise from individuals, too.

Almost all the corporate funding we facilitate is no strings attached, meaning the project creators and maintainers stay in the driver's seat when it comes to prioritisation. Some projects opt to make other commitments to funders but that's totally up to the project.

Open Collective team member here. You're so right! We have been able to form partnerships with many big tech companies and grantmaking foundations, and it really opens up possibilities for projects to access them. Since we collectively represent so many projects we can use that scale to open doors, and on a practical level once we're in their supplier systems and have gone through their due diligence processes once, future funding is much easier.

This is one of the times when the value of fiscal sponsorship really shines. For example, if you sign up with Open Source Collective [1] (which I'm on the team of), we can form a contract with the payer and receive the funds, then distribute them to you as the maintainer.

We do this kind of thing all the time for projects under our umbrella. We have lawyers on tap and lots of experience in this area, and we take on all the responsibility for tax reporting, legals, compliance, banking, invoicing etc etc.

If your project has >100 stars you can set up a Collective instantly.

[1] https://oscollective.org

Hello, Open Collective team member here!

We do have quite a few open source projects running bounty programs.

Here are some examples:

* https://www.jhipster.tech/bug-bounties/ * https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/funding-mautic-communi... * https://docs.opencollective.com/help/contributing/developmen...

You can connect your GitHub Sponsors to your Open Collective and use both channels to fundraise and resource bounty payments.

More on that here: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/github-spon...

I agree with your frustration about the green movement's knee-jerk rejection of nuclear power, but in NZ anti-nuclear policy was a very galvanising touchpoint for the environmental and anti-war movements, so there's a bit more context there. Nuclear-free and the Springbok protests are referenced constantly as progressive wins.

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