Oddbean new post about login | logout OpenCollective is changing. The current “non-profit as a service” platform is being handed off to a new non-profit and the company is focusing back on creating new organizational forms and models for supporting open source. https://blog.opencollective.com/the-open-collective-platform-is-moving-to-a-community-governed-non-profit/
It's only sad that all donations are charged ~5% directly to the pockets of credit card companies and payment processors.
@xdamman the founder of OpenCollective who’s returning as CEO to run OpenCollective Inc is here on Nostr. One of the points of contention was different opinions about crypto and payments systems. We should expect the new OC projects to be much more open to decentralized tech. :)
Talking of which, how can open collective be of service to the nostr community?
Why not write a little post re-introducing yourself and what you’re thinking about for the new open collective and I’ll share it.
Collective? Sounds like commie bullshit.
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A successful Exit to Community is a positive thing overall. But this does make me concerned about the future of the existing OpenCollective platform. Reading between the lines, it seems like the classic 'dump insufficiently profitable service on non-profit'. Netscape Navigator being dumped into the Mozilla Foundation was the first example, but we've seen many since; Goggle Wave and OpenOffice being left on Apache's doorstep, Sandstorm.io moving to sandstorm.org, and so many others. OTOH this seems like a genuine cell division, allowing different factions of the founding crew to pusrue different visions. So I'm cautiously optimistic about the future of both projects.