Open Source Collective shutting down
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. 😵💫
The naming situation here is like a monty python skit
Splitters!
Judean Peoples Front! Fuck off.. Judean Peoples Front... We're the Peoples Front of Judea!!!!
Splitters!
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.
I read this post earlier and only now the second time around, it makes sense. Thanks!
It seems like it's just one of the fiscal hosts. Maybe. I don't know, I am confused.
Check back at the post, let's be confused together.
I've been looking at this for some time now and I'm still as confused as I was in the beginning.
https://feddit.de/comment/7785789
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for linking!
Important: Do not confuse Open Collective Foundation with Open Source Collective: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation
From Regarding the announcement to dissolve Open Collective Foundation:
Mastodon.world's open collective fiscal host is Open Collective Europe. So it seems that would be fine?
At this point I'm too confused to figure it out :D
Seems quite sudden especially when I can't really think of a lot of comparable websites projects could migrate to.
https://feddit.de/comment/7785789
So just move to Open Source Collective. What even is Open Collective Foundation and why did they exist?
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.
ye, but the names are not helping.
So Patreon is the only workaround atm.
Nope. Just use Open Collective. If you're a FOSS project, use Open Source Collective. Neither are shutting down.
Luckily not! There's LiberaPay, which I find preferable to OpenCollective anyway. No confusion with hosts and it's clearly non-profit.
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.