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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Editing to avoid confusion

Do not confuse Open Collective Foundation with Open Source Collective: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation

This is even more confusing because the org behind Open Collective (opencollective.com) is called " Open Source Collective" whereas the org behind Open Source Collective (oscollective.org) is called Open Collective Foundation.

I believe the author here is confused as well

EDIT: I'm even more confused. Links from oscollective.org point back to opencollective.com. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

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[โ€“] 9point6 72 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The naming situation here is like a monty python skit

[โ€“] nivenkos 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Judean Peoples Front! Fuck off.. Judean Peoples Front... We're the Peoples Front of Judea!!!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This post is unfortunately quite misleading : OpenCollective is not shutting down! The news is just that the Open Collective Foundation, a fiscal host on the Open Collective Platform, is going to be dissolved and that collectives using this fiscal host will have to transfer their funds to another fiscal host.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I read this post earlier and only now the second time around, it makes sense. Thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[โ€“] knifer 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

From Regarding the announcement to dissolve Open Collective Foundation:

Please be assured Open Source Collective is not affected and will continue to operate as usual. ... The similarity in our names stems from a common origin, as the founders of Open Source Collective were also involved in creating the fiscal hosts Open Collective Foundation and Open Collective Europe.

Mastodon.world's open collective fiscal host is Open Collective Europe. So it seems that would be fine?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

At this point I'm too confused to figure it out :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Last day to accept funds/receive donations: March 15, 2024

Last day collectives can have employees: June 30, 2024

Last day to spend or transfer funds: September 30, 2024

Seems quite sudden especially when I can't really think of a lot of comparable websites projects could migrate to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

So just move to Open Source Collective. What even is Open Collective Foundation and why did they exist?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm even more confused. Links from oscollective.org point back to opencollective.com. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

Thats because one is the entire website and another is a fiscal host on that website. They both exist on the same website.

One is a square. One is a smaller circle inside the square.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

ye, but the names are not helping.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So Patreon is the only workaround atm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Nope. Just use Open Collective. If you're a FOSS project, use Open Source Collective. Neither are shutting down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Luckily not! There's LiberaPay, which I find preferable to OpenCollective anyway. No confusion with hosts and it's clearly non-profit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The problem is Liberapay is that it's not a fiscal host. i.e.you need to take the money, declare taxes on it etc.