Four years ago, with a group of peers, we started in Argentina a new kind of political party, el Partido de la Red (Net Party). We were frustrated and frankly, pissed off at how things are run in politics and wanted to break into the political system to bring it…
We love to spend time with collectives to learn why they do what they do, what their goals are and what they need to achieve them. We wanted to share one of these stories today: Open Source Design.
I’m super excited to announce that Pia and Aseem are both joining the OpenCollective adventure. They are both remarkable people with very complementary skills. I’m thrilled and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to work…
We use MochaJS at OpenCollective. It’s an open source framework for Javascript testing. It was one of the first open source projects that raised money on our site. Today, it has an annual budget of over $6k. We love it. It’s rewarding to see…
Ever since we announced our new service to enable open source communities to collect money from backers and sponsors, the same question came up again and again: why would an open source project need money?
A few weeks ago, we decided to rebuild our front-end from scratch. We evaluated a few react-based starter kits and found Max Stoiber’s React-boilerplate closest to our preferences — it also helps that there is a strong community around…
OpenCollective is on a mission to give more economic power to communities. Greater economic power means greater impact. It should be easy for people to come together, pool money and spend it transparently without worrying about legal entities or bank accounts.
We are very happy to share this news with you! The 97 OSS projects that make up the Open Source Collective have raised…
These were the top 10 stories published by Open Collective in 2016. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.