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.
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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※
- ^ "Open Collective is a GoFundMe-like service for open source projects". VentureBeat. 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ Ideas, WIRED. "Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Collective Foundation Dissolving Effective 12/31/2024 - Open Collective Foundation". opencollective.com. Retrieved 2024-03-17.