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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What they were doing? What's this collective?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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