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About - Open Collective

Open Collective was founded by idealists to make online communities more sustainable. What began as a tool for open source and grassroots groups has grown into a global infrastructure for transparency, collaboration, and shared financial stewardship.

Raise, manage and disburse money with full transparency.

Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for groups. It’s a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community. What do you want to do?

npmx: converging communities

The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together

Home - Open Source Collective

Open Source Collective is a non-profit fiscal host for open source projects. Get Transparent fundraising, money management, and legal representation

Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash

Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.

Scaling Open Source communities

Successful Open Source projects must transition from pure volunteerism to include paid contributions, mirroring how public goods like roads evolved historically.

Concentric Groups, Knowledge Bridges and Epistemic Communities

vs Elitism, Celebrity and Oligarchy This article is part of a series: ‘Stigmergy: Systems of Mass Collaboration’. Note: Concentric circles relate to sound amplification – the voic…

Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power - The Algo Rhythm by Blacksky

[This document serves as a memo for investors]

⁂ community, collaboration, co-existence | Are.na

for building a collective future

More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks

Part 3 of a series. See If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next and Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere for previous installments and a reading list. "Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making meaning

co/infra

Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra

Open Social Network Cookbook

The Open Social Network Cookbook is the collective product of the Open Social Incubator, a cohort that MEDLab hosted from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

Systems: How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Social fabric: The Price of What Survives

Some reflections on the social fabric (which we've taken to calling 'social capital')