2026-03-17 –, Room bUm Box
The largest users of the Open Collective Platform set up a coup and ousted the initial investors. We are now a 501(c)(6) membership nonprofit. We would love to share how our governance has evolved, our current challenges in achieving financial sustainability, and how we have contributed to the open-source ecosystem. https://blog.opencollective.com
The Open Collective Platform has been a big advocate for open-source since it's inception in 2015. Not only have we helped the open source ecosystem but it has supported our growth in return. The largest Fiscal Host on our platform is Open Source Collective. The true open-source back office star. Ensuring the legal and accounting compliance of over 3000 open-source projects.
Our platform enables these projects to transparently showcase their financials. Highlighting the critical gaps in funding and encouraging collaborative ownership. https://discover.opencollective.com/opensource
Open Source Collective has been a key instigator in freeing the platform from it's venture capital history and pursing true community ownership. We would love to celebrate this and dive into how this was negotiated.
It's one thing to take the step and become community owned, it's an entirely different reality to shape the shared governance and put our words into action. While we are still grappling to find our footing and achieve financial sustainability. We would love to share the governance processes we have implemented and the key challenges we have faced. What was sacrificed and lost in the process and what challenges do we still need to navigate.
Head of Operations @ Open Finance Consortium the non-profit stewarding the Open Collective Platform.