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Open Collective Official Statement - OCF Dissolution

https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/

Dear Open Collective Community, It is with sad hearts that we have heard the news about Open Collective Foundation decision to dissolve, effective December 31. The full content of their announcement, which came as a surprise to us, can be found here, and they have also created an FAQ. We

8 comments

Moonrise2473

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What they were doing? What's this collective?

shootwhatsmyname

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They were a donation platform for community projects and open-source projects. Their main thing was that all donations and expenses by an entity are public, so there’s a lot of transparency with who and where the money goes that you donate. Really sad to lose them

helenslunch

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I believe their expenses were public also. Basically a public financial record.

fruitycoder

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OCI the company running the platform seems to still be up and running it, at from reading the FAQ.

scottmeme

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shootwhatsmyname

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It’s so weird reading both sides of the 2 entities involved in this. Seems like there’s some missing communication between the two

davidgro

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Link to the other side?

shootwhatsmyname

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The post article is from the umbrella organization Open Collective Inc.

Here’s the announcement from the Open Collective Foundation. There’s also Open Collective Europe which will not be dissolving.

Originally I remember OCF partially blaming OCI’s decisions as some of the reason OCF couldn’t be sustainable, but I can’t seem to find that anymore