Open Collective

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Are you on web3? Do you support public goods to lift up all the boats in the ecosystem? Do you also believe that there should be more transparency on how all those projects spend the money they raise with the community? Support the development of a web3 version of Open Collective. Vote with a small donation by April 17th on Gitcoin. (Link in the comments)

🙏 A lot of gratitude to all of you for coming to our Open Collective FOSDEM meetup Saturday evening at the Commons Hub Brussels. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did! It was a beautiful evening with a mix of healthy local organic food 🥗 & drinks 🍻, presentations from Xavier Damman, Benjamin Piouffle, Leonardo Koch Kewitz, Kris Decoodt and Leen Schelfhout, a participative board to create the mycelium of the community 🕸️, another board to share our gratitude 🙏, offers & requests and conversation circles to have meaningful conversations in a cosy environmnent. 🔅 🎉 We celebrated $50M raised for Open Source Collectives since we started the Open Source Collective fiscal host. We talked about "protecting what is" with the current version of the platform moving to a new non-profit owned by existing fiscal hosts (Open Finance Consortium) and "making space for the new", with a new upcoming web3 version with support for multiple currencies. 🏡 All of this at the Commons Hub Brussels, a space that is running on Open Collective and that is pushing us to keep innovating to embrace not only the yang economy of the euro or dollar, but also a yin economy. An economy that recognizes non-financial contributions that are equally important for the health and success of any collective. ☯️ ✨ To highlight some of the post-its that expressed gratitude: "Open Source makes my life much more enjoyable", "nice and supportive people in the open source community", "collective wisdom of the community", "members stepping up". But also gratitude to organizations such as NLnet foundation, Open Source Collective, Filecoin Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, ... 🎁 Offers to the community: "Better marketing and adoption" from Ira Nezhynska, "Mentoring program for women of open source" from Ruth Cheesley (she/her), "Help organizations make more contributions to open source and facilitate the relationship orgs-open source" from Georg Link, PhD 🙋🏻♀️ And needs and requests: "looking for open source communities willing to become a DAO", "suggestions on how to get people / companies to contribute more recurrently", "bootstrap a lobbying group for digital commons bank", "a yin currency for our coop", "mentors for underrepresented folks in tech", Ruth Cheesley (she/her): "platform instance as a digital common", "researching core team governance models, who to add?", "peer support, knowledge sharing, collaboration!", and more! (see photo). Shall we do this again next year during FOSDEM 2026? Tag the people, organizations and collectives that you can see in the pictures!

The next Citizen Spotlight call is coming - and it’s your chance to meet these two powerhouse women, and learn about the work they’ve done to create what I think of as critical infrastructure for a #CitizenFuture… Between them, Pia Mancini and Esther Foreman have made Open Collective open and accessible to community organisations across the UK, so they can get started with their work quickly and easily, without having to spend time on admin ahead of action. Nuts and bolts, OC is a platform that enables a combination of open budgeting and crowdfunding - totally transparent incomings and outgoings. That transparency is what effectively replaces the admin: because anyone can see what’s going on, that is the governance. We’re signed up on OC as the Citizen Collective, and I’m excited to get into the structure and functionality… but mostly this call is going to be about the stories of these two very special humans. Pia, originally from Argentina, is one of the original OC cofounders. She and I have known each other a good few years, dating back to her 1m+ TED talk on “Upgrading Democracy for the Broadband Era” (link in comments), and her work on the pioneering Partido de la Red (The Network Party) in Argentina. Esther Foreman, for her part, is a serial civic and social entrepreneur who created The Social Change Nest to unleash the potential of OC in the UK. As founder also of The Social Change Agency and many other initiatives besides, Esther has been doing whatever the work demands for more years than she looks like she could have been alive, and is a true hero of mine. Come meet and learn from them! Wednesday 20th, 10am UK time. Registration here: https://lu.ma/agyw5s6m

Have questions about the new non-profit ownership of the current Open Collective Platform? 🌱 Dive into our FAQ and diagram outlining the new structure 🐝 https://lnkd.in/gzYsdq6D

The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit! 🐝 A group of fiscal hosts representing thousands of collectives have created a new independent, community-governed, non-profit organization Open Finance Consortium and have reached an agreement with Open Collective Inc. to take over the Open Collective platform as it exists today. 👏🏼

Our team is growing! We have 4 open positions: 🌟 Programme and Community Development Lead 🌟 Senior Operations Manager (maternity cover) 🌟 Senior Account Manager 🌟 Administrator Have a look here https://lnkd.in/eKmvrF-K If you have questions about any of the roles or our workplace culture, message us and we'll arrange a friendly chat. Share wide and loud - or apply soon!

📣 JOB ALERT! We're recruiting!! We're looking for people who want to support grassroots groups and informal movements across the UK (and some abroad) - please share across your networks! - Administrator - Programme and Community Development Lead - Senior Operations Manager (12 month maternity cover) - Senior Account Manager https://lnkd.in/eHqYTTEV

👏🏼 Massive congratulations

And we are proud to be supporting The Social Change Nest with their day to day operations! ❤️ Awesome to see your community thriving 🎉