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S1E7: Open Collective – open source gets a funding partner

Making money legible to boost open source projects and communities.

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Juan Carlos Asensio
Sep 22, 2025
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Cartoon for the Open Collective 2024 report

What’s cool about Open Collective?

If open source can be considered public infrastructure, how we fund would be represented by the potholes and cracks of its crumbling parts. We all drive on the road; almost nobody funds building said roads, at least not directly (or too willingly at that).

Open Collective (OC) a…

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