Keynote – Pia Mancini
summary
Open Collective builds a platform plus fiscal hosts so open source projects can receive and hold money without becoming companies, with 3,343 projects onboarded, $30M facilitated and $23M paid to maintainers showing traction. Features include transparent, project-directed funds, GitHub Sponsors integration, vendor and compliance handling, and experiments like quadratic funding and bounties. The claim: tooling plus hosts and governance mechanisms actually move real dollars and support maintainers.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Future of collective sustainability
- 1:08Open source sustainability
- 2:33Open source funding problems
- 5:06Community imbalances in OSS
- 7:39Solutions for decentralized communities
- 10:53Legal barriers to funding
- 13:06Transparent funding with Open Collective
- 16:41Corporate incentives for OSS
- 22:21Infrastructure beyond finance
- 26:12Culture and governance in open communities
- 27:56Open Collective’s mission and vision
- 29:23Future of Open Collective ownership
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